[Myrddin]

If you have an IQ over room temperature, it's not an issue. I've traveled in the UK and Europe. Speed limits and speedometers are labeled consistently. Temperatures take a little consideration if you're accustomed to Fahrenheit and the thermometers are displaying Celsius. No big deal. I'm more put off by linguistic constructs such as "Exxon have decided to raise prices" and "We will have cloud this weekend". It seems a mismatch of singular/plural subjects and verb conjugations. It's Brit English vs American English.

[mamelukesabre]

If you have an IQ over room temperature
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Fahrenheit or centigrade?

[KarlInOhio]

I’ve got a strange mix of units I feel comfortable with. Miles, yards, feet and inches, but then I switch to millimeters, microns and nanometers because of a couple jobs which did a lot of small measurements in metric. A mil (0.001 inches) always means 25.4 microns to me. For radio bands I figure wavelengths in meters, but always think of those as “big yards” when doing anything practical with them. Fahrenheit is for temperatures, but in college I was almost as familiar with Kelvin temperatures.

[MCSP2008]

Salve

LOL - Can I have a fag please LOL, American person will have a heart attack, relax for all it is cigarette.

LOL

I have feeling this is just opening for some serious fun here.

Merci

[9YearLurker]

Yes, they certainly think we’re silly the way we use a singular verb with a plural group, such as a team or a company!

[BfloGuy]

It seems a mismatch of singular/plural subjects and verb conjugations.

And it's a recent phenomenon. When I lived there in the late nineties, I never heard this collective singular. The Brits do like to play games with the language, though.