The UK Date format being replaced by the US style.
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Paper size is another one, You try getting A4 in a Yank shop. I ran an art competition on behalf of a school a few years back. The paper size had to be just less than A2 & A3 was too small. I even gave the school the correct size paper but it wasn't used for the entries. So nearly all the entries were on A3, which meant they were all disqualified, even though I told the school what the paper size must be. I'd've got a better response out of brick wall, so I told the school that was the last time & there wouldn't be a competition the next year. I complained to the organisers that here in limeyland we use the ISO 216 Standard of paper sizes and that getting the entries on the paper size required would be difficult. The organisers were having none of it & refused to change the rules, so I told them 'politely' 
what to do with their art competition.
what to do with their art competition.Ooh never knew that iso and been using that format for years! Yes, vindicated. Makes sorting in alphabetical order a breeze.
I agree, a chain is 22 yards as is a cricket pitch, there are 1760 yards in a mile and eight furlongs also make up a mile so there are 220 yards in a furlong or ten cricket pitches.
There are 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds make a stone, 112 pounds make a hundredweight. But a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter meaning there are 20 fluid ounces in a pint. A gill is a quarter of a pint or four fluid ounces. So the old Scottish measure of a quarter gill is one fluid ounce.
Life was so much simpler before kilograms and meters.
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It annoyed me immensely when it started getting called "9/11". It still does, but you can't really complain about it when that whole, ya know, awful terrorist atrocity comes up in conversation..I’ve come across quite a few idiots over the past 19 years or so who thought the twin towers were attacked on the 9th November
With my longtime dealings with Americans I've figured out that they just have an inane desire to do things differently. They make up words, sayings when there really is no reason for it. Case in point, have you ever eaten in a restaurant with an American where they order something off the menu without changing something? They're physically incapable. "I'll have the burger please, with no mayo and extra gherkins". It's crazy, they don't even know they're doing it...
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The Septics do seem to take “Not invented here” syndrome to another level.
Can't blame them. UK has really old fashioned ways and thinking. "We've always did it this way."
It certainly does. I had to sort through a bunch of invoices that only had dates as names, written as "22 Nov" etc. Nightmare.
We've been copying most of them for decades but we usually do a half arsed job at it.
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Isn't it because there are so many 'idiots' that believe everything they see on American TV. Then even start pronouncing words incorrectly. 'Schedule' is a prime example. As are phrases such as "just saying" ('just saying' what? The fact that they have said something already expressly implies that that have 'just said it'), and "Let me just grab something real quick."
It's worse when UK based websites like the Royal Mail then use US CAPTCHA. Any people in the UK then have to pick out a 'cross walk' or something else daftly American.
With language, normally it's the opposite. Former colonies tend to speak in a more old fashioned way. This is certainly the case in the US where they still used old English words that fell out of favour in the UK. It's same when you see Spanish particularly Chliean and compare it to Castellano.
It's worse when UK based websites like the Royal Mail then use US CAPTCHA. Any people in the UK then have to pick out a 'cross walk' or something else daftly American.
With language, normally it's the opposite. Former colonies tend to speak in a more old fashioned way. This is certainly the case in the US where they still used old English words that fell out of favour in the UK. It's same when you see Spanish particularly Chliean and compare it to Castellano.
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Its beyond irritating and even worse when you spell it right way and the ever present yanks on the site tell you you're dong it wrong...
but its just whats happening just like "math" appearing everywhere even in classrooms... its mathS FFS! Plural. We also adopted the american billion at some point since I was a kid.