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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)

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[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (17 children)

Distribution of the two (pink is mixed) from Wikipedia:

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What's crazy is that it's not consistent by language. Obviously we have British/Aussie/Kiwi vs US/Canadian English, but the Spanish speaking world is also fractured.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And not even by otherwise closely related geographical regions. The Nordics, one of the world's most internally cooperative group of countries, have Sweden and Denmark using the ~~English~~ British system, and Finland and Norway using the ~~British~~ American system.

Edit: I'm a dumbass

[–] disgrunty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you mean to say American for one of those systems? England is part of Great Britain.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I did indeed, thanks for pointing it out.

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