We also don’t use apostrophes for plural words.
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allywilson@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Wait a sec, I was told American’s don’t use the metric system…
Default_Defect@midwest.social 10 months ago
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Speak for yourselv’es
psud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)
It’s a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe
Zoop@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Plenty of us do, unfortunately!
Psythik@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You were lied to. We use a mix of both, just like the UK.
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you know which comics is it?
austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
The imperial system doesn’t have any electromagnetism units that I’m aware of, so they borrow from SI.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I’d be horsepower * hour, since horsepower is a unit, of, well, power, and [Energy] = [Power]*[Time]
But might as well go for an obscure time unit as well at that point. Horsepower Sennights, baby
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m gonna need you to repent and convert to metric
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.