No Kilometers but Miles
No Celsius but Fahrenheit or im not sure about the name
No day/month/year but month/day/year
No Centimeters but Feet
No Meters but Inches
No Football but Soccer
No Rugby but Football
They do wanna be special lmfao
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Why do Americans want to be special?
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Man, us Canadians are like some weird hybrid.
- We measure distance and speed in Kilometres
- We measure temperature in Celsius unless it’s for cooking then we use Fahrenheit
- We say soccer (football is American football)
- We do SOME measurements in metric, unless it’s height or construction then we use imperial.
- if something is light we tend to use metric (ie 2 grams), if something is heavy we tend to use imperial (ie 7,000 pounds). We measure our own body weight in pounds.
- We measure volume in metric (ml, L, etc) unless it’s for cooking then you’ll see “3/4 cups, 2 teaspoons” etc.
(None if this applies to the science or healthcare fields, they use metric exclusively of course but all of this applies to every day life lol)
Same in britain i believe. Ive heard british people who measure distance while driving in miles but walking/biking in km. Their height in feet and inches but measuring the length of an object in meters. Weight for people and large objects in lbs/tons but small objects and food in grams/kg. Volume of foodstuffs in pints/gallons but volume of gasoline for example in liters. Cooking is a weird mix of both. and then they use their own dumbass measurements like stone at the same time too
we use different units because when the british colonized us we kept the units, and just haven't changed because it's kinda pointless and would cost a lot of money
football isn't rugby, it's a different sport entirely
soccer is because when we got the sport from the british that's what they called it (this isn't just us either, soccer is used in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, and the southern part of the Philippines)
and for mm/dd/yyyy idk
mm/dd/yyyy is of course another British thing that Americans inherited and never bothered changing. Its because dates used to be written out as opposed to writing them in numbers, so "June 3rd, 2020" makes perfect sense. But when computers came about it became necessary to writes dates numerically, and the countries who still regularly used mm/dd/yyyy swapped to the now-logical dd/mm/yyyy. Except for America of course. Although I've heard the military uses yyyy/mm/dd, like in Asia
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