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I also do that face when I hear kilometres and colonisation spelt wrong.
Also, my confusion face isn’t Earl Grey flavoured, as I’m not some sort of lah-de-dah French Space Captain or whatever, so I drink normal Yorkshire Tea, which is obviously grown in the great tea fields of Yorkshire, which are real.
And yes, I can hear spelling, and no, I can’t prove it.
Obviously an American who’d use those spellings would never colonise anyone…
So you really gonna say colonised instead of colonized might as well call it colo-niced you colonizer how’s your falafel and curry you fuck /s
Hahaha, it’s delicious, thank you. Hong-Kong style noodles tomorrow :)
As a non-native, I accept and welcome your insistence on spelling words the original way. Now let’s make sure everyone spells and pronounces everything the original way, including
- dachshund (da - ch=kh - s - hoond)
- fuchsia (foo - ch=kh - see - uh)
- bruschetta (broo - s - k - ettuh)
- goulash is only accepted when talking about the Austrian version of the Hungarian original, gulyás (goo - yush)
Sounds good to me. How do we make it law?
metre may be closer to the original loanword but in no way does it match the english pronounciation, meter does that much better
Meet-uh
(Or meet-ah, for Southerners)[Edit] Or, within 100 miles in random directions:
Mittah
Mi’ae
Meit-eh
Meet-uuuuuh
Meet-rr
MittreProbably depends quite strongly on where you live.
Apologies to whoever this post offended.
I’m guessing it’s one of you from the town that says “Meet-uuuuuh”.
Of course that’s confusing, one is a measure of speed, the other of volume.
If you assume a standard size for a cup of tea and a standard size for an average nation then it’s a measure of distance. The distance being the depth that the tea would reach if it was poured equally over the whole empire.
Yes it won’t work because speed is measured in grams and volume in LUFS.
Furlongs per fortnight would be my preference.
We seem to be getting the hang of metric when it comes to fitness and exercise.
Attempting or even suggesting to use km when behind a wheel however still results in fear and confusion.
As someone who doesn’t really drive, I pretty much use metric for everything, I find it way more intuitive.
I still think it’s odd that we have this carve out for motorists, basically everything else (apart from pints of beer also) seemed to do the metric switch at the same time apart from them. I often get odd looks from people when using kilometres over miles for long distances
I can only assume that metric was resisted in pubs partly because people assumed they’d take the 568ml pint and round it down to 500ml, or perhaps to save small pubs from having to replace all their glassware. Both seem workaround-able though.
People in the UK use imperial for all kinds of things all the time, not just distance. I don’t know anyone who knows their height in centimetres. Everyone still uses feet and inches. Land is still usually discussed in sq ft, acres, hectares etc. Weight (of a person) is still stones and pounds.
FWIW I use centimetres and feet relatively interchangeably for height and know a lot of others that do the same
Weight is very much kg these days in my circles, I think older relatives are the only ones still using stone. Not sure when that flipped really as it was definitely stone when I was growing up
Switching is effort when there’s infrastructure involved. Much like changing all the pub glasses, you’d have to change all the road signs, the driving test, and the speedometer in every single person’s car!
I always assumed for signs it would be a case of stickers (like they do already for other changes) and then replacement over time as signs got renewed. I guess to go all out, we might need to move exit markers slightly given they’re spaced 100 yards apart I think, but they’re close enough to 100m for it to probably be fine
I think most cars for as long as I remember can do both
Changing the test just seems like a bit of bureaucracy, but maybe I’m simplifying that in my head
Good points actually! I suppose it would be doable, but it would probably be a massive expense (and hassle!) ultimately for not that much of a gain, so I can’t imagine any politician actually stumping up the cash for it.
What annoys me most is that we sell petrol in litres but still measure fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Then America wanted its own gallon to feel special and so there’s the added confusion of which gallon when converting
Just switch already; it makes things much easier.
~ someone who went from US customary units -> metricland
bergamot is genuinely disgusting
