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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

Distribution of the two (pink is mixed) from Wikipedia:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What's crazy is that it's not consistent by language. Obviously we have British/Aussie/Kiwi vs US/Canadian English, but the Spanish speaking world is also fractured.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And not even by otherwise closely related geographical regions. The Nordics, one of the world's most internally cooperative group of countries, have Sweden and Denmark using the ~~English~~ British system, and Finland and Norway using the ~~British~~ American system.

Edit: I'm a dumbass

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you mean to say American for one of those systems? England is part of Great Britain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I did indeed, thanks for pointing it out.

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