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Heh, this is similar to how the British English accent developed after the American Revolutionary War, and thus the American accent is closer to Shakespeare's than that of modern Brits': https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...

I'm also amused by all the former commonwealth people who call Americans backwards for refusing the metric system, yet still quote things in pints, miles, or, heaven forbid, stones.

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There only one I regularly hear as a former British penal colonist is pints and if it's stinking hot while sitting outside most would prefer a schooner or middy.

Refusing to accept the metric system goes far beyond regional dialects and you all know it but are so fucking stubborn to ever change :)

> all the former commonwealth people who call Americans backwards […] yet still quote things in pints, miles, or, heaven forbid, stones.

Only Brits seem to do that. The rest of the Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations have fully transitioned.

Canada seems to use a lot of traditional measures. Australians from the country seem to measure in feet and inches - not just peoples heights. And a foreigner might think an Australian asking for a pint of beer is asking for a measure of beer, although a pint is just the name of a size of glass (like a schooner or pot).

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