We also don’t use apostrophes for plural words.
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allywilson@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Wait a sec, I was told American’s don’t use the metric system…
Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 months ago
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Speak for yourselv’es
psud@aussie.zone 2 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 3 months ago
Plenty of us do, unfortunately!
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You were lied to. We use a mix of both, just like the UK.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you know which comics is it?
austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
The imperial system doesn’t have any electromagnetism units that I’m aware of, so they borrow from SI.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 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 3 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 3 months ago
I’m gonna need you to repent and convert to metric
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.