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Wait a sec, I was told American’s don’t use the metric system…

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The imperial system doesn’t have any electromagnetism units that I’m aware of, so they borrow from SI.

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The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.

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21 points

We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

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I’m all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

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You were lied to. We use a mix of both, just like the UK.

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1 point

Do you know which comics is it?

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We also don’t use apostrophes for plural words.

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Plenty of us do, unfortunately!

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Speak for yourselv’es

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The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)

It’s a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe

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