Yes it won't work because speed is measured in grams and volume in LUFS.

If you assume a standard size for a cup of tea and a standard size for an average nation then it's a measure of distance. The distance being the depth that the tea would reach if it was poured equally over the whole empire.

So you really gonna say colonised instead of colonized might as well call it colo-niced you colonizer how's your falafel and curry you fuck /s

Obviously an American who’d use those spellings would never colonise anyone…

As a non-native, I accept and welcome your insistence on spelling words the original way. Now let's make sure everyone spells and pronounces everything the original way, including

• dachshund (da - ch=kh - s - hoond)
• fuchsia (foo - ch=kh - see - uh)
• bruschetta (broo - s - k - ettuh)
• goulash is only accepted when talking about the Austrian version of the Hungarian original, gulyás (goo - yush)

metre may be closer to the original loanword but in no way does it match the english pronounciation, meter does that much better

What annoys me most is that we sell petrol in litres but still measure fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Then America wanted its own gallon to feel special and so there’s the added confusion of which gallon when converting

As someone who doesn't really drive, I pretty much use metric for everything, I find it way more intuitive.

I still think it's odd that we have this carve out for motorists, basically everything else (apart from pints of beer also) seemed to do the metric switch at the same time apart from them. I often get odd looks from people when using kilometres over miles for long distances

I can only assume that metric was resisted in pubs partly because people assumed they'd take the 568ml pint and round it down to 500ml, or perhaps to save small pubs from having to replace all their glassware. Both seem workaround-able though.