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    Maybe we could get you guys (and the UK) to drop those extra "u"s now in the name of saving the environment... Less toner used when printing! :-) Interesting problem, I always thought Canadien and British used identical spelling AND symbology.
    – Brian Knoblauch
    Commented Jun 17, 2010 at 15:14
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    @Brian It has to do with pronunciation I guess. I'm just used to using Canadian English spelling. And did you just spell Canadian with an e? Are you French? ;)
    – squircle
    Commented Jun 17, 2010 at 15:19
  • My understanding on Canadian-vs-British keyboard/spelling/etc was that Canada uses dollars, whereas the UK uses pounds.
    – warren
    Commented Jun 17, 2010 at 15:42
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    @Brian Knoblauch, maybe we could finally get you guys in the US to embrace the metric system? It'll save a lot of FLOP's not to convert back and forth from [obscure unit] to [rational unit] all the time ;-)
    – trolle3000
    Commented Jun 21, 2010 at 17:57
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    I'd love to do the metric switchover here in the states. I've already done it at home. I use metric tools, metric measuring devices, etc. I'm getting real good at conversions since they're required whenever I talk to anybody... :-) I'm still annoyed that the world hasn't dumped our horrible system of time (especially time zones) and gone to an absolute decimal time system.
    – Brian Knoblauch
    Commented Jun 22, 2010 at 14:56