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In response to "we are special that way -- nm" by decline

I was going to put this down to someone not knowing the difference between American exceptionalism and being different just to be different, but it

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Apr 20 '12, 07:08

turns out that the US stuck with the 18th century system of measuring, while Britain refined the standard in the 19th.

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