Australia used to have the old british system of measurement. In my life time I have been through currency change from pounds shilling and pence to the decimal system of dollars and cents. It is a whole lot easier doing things in 10's than 12's.

Then we went from imperial measurements to metric. It is hard getting your head around it at first but it is so much easier to measure something like 355mm than say 1 foot 5 and 3/16ths of an inch. There is a significant cost factor to it and that is why the US baulked at it I think. But now they are out of step with the rest of the world. Canada is metric maybe they are not as backward as the country south of them reckons.

The farenhieght scale for temperature is so bloody ridiculous. Fancy starting at 32 for freezing point and having 212 for boiling point. The celsius scale of 0 for freezing and 100 for boiling (point of water ) is much more logical.

Talking of a mixture, I once worked on Italian Macchi Jet trainers which were powered by a Bristol Siddley Viper engine of british manufacure. All the airfame nuts bolts and screws were metric and the engine had british threads and imperial measure nuts and bolts. Of course america has its own thread system and never the twain shall meet lol. But the most interesting thing was the Macchi maintenance manual. It was orginally produced in Italian of course and the engine manual was in english but got translated into Italian. when Australia bought the Macchi the manuals all got translated to English. The engine manual was a pretty funny book as it was translated from english to Italian and then back to English. We eventually got the originals from Bristol Siddley and it was very funny comparing them.

I did see something about an 'Outing' in an earlier post. To me that means going out somewhere for a picnic or a day in the country. To be outed is to be declared a homosexual publicly.
English is such a strange lanuage and with americans, Canadians, Australians and the like stuffing around with it, it makes it even more strange LOL.

Keep the differences coming in, I am enjoying this thread.