[Resolute Conservative]

Whatever. We are the best, don’t like it, too bad. I will not bow to any other culture, unlike our pResident.

Go and correct your kids.

[Dr. Sivana]

Oh, so the English System is now the American System.... nice.

At least for liquid measures, the American system has some differences from the English system. An English pint is 20 ounces. An English gallon is just shy of 154 U.S. ounces.

That said, the U.S. system for liquids is actually based (per Wikipedia) on the pre-1824 English system for wine measurement. We expanded and standardized on it separately.

I find it ironic that the folks in the 18th century didn't complain about changing from livres to lira to guineas to pounds to dollars, or from English to French to U.S. measurements, and now that we have computers that make it far more exact (except that computers still stink at many fractions), everyone wants to unify measurements and currencies.

I half expect someone (besides Napoleon) to chew out God for picking a prime number for the length of a week!