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Originally Posted by mrdavidkerr

We don't use the F word - we're British you know!

(presume your inferring Feet and inches!)

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OK, getting off topic, but I can't resist - the way the Brits mix up their units of measure is really quite amusing. In most of the world people use the metric system. In the US we use the imperial system, which is bizarre but at least we're consistent. But in the UK you have a very strange mix of measurements:

Milk, water, etc are sold in litres, but beer is sold in pints and gasoline in gallons (which are different than our gallons by the way).

Length is in metres, unless you're on the motorway in which case it's in miles and sometimes yards.

Weight is in kilos, unless you're talking about how much a person weighs, in which case it's stones.

But back to the question about "sussed" - I must admit I've not heard it, though I deal regularly with folks in the UK who use terms like "it's gone pear-shaped" and "bespoke" (I had to look that one up when I first came to work here). And I have learned that the way we pronounce the word "solder" here in the US makes my British friends smirk. ;)

On measurements your missing the whole point;

When we're talking we use feet, miles, pints etc because everyone knows them.
When we're doing maths or measurements we go modern & metric. Cus it's so bloomin easy!

As to pronunciation, I can win the whole thing for the UK with one word;

Aluminium! :)

OOOOH dear, I feel I may have started something.

Aluminium?

How do you guys say it?

I'm in Canada, here we say Ah-loo-mi-num.

I'd love to here the Brit pronunciation. :)

Note the extra "i" in his word, so a lu MIN ni um.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Note the extra "i" in his word, so a lu MIN ni um.

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I copied it and still didn't notice it. Interesting.

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Originally Posted by mrdavidkerr

Aluminium! :)

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Aluminum vs. Aluminium

I had the good fortune to attend the Royal Henley Regatta a few years back and sit in the steward's enclosure with all the hoity-toity. It's perhaps te most famous week of crew races in the world, but being England it's also the kind of sporting event where gentlemen are required to wear jacket and tie and women dresses (below the knee). I was reading the program and noticed a team entered from Shrewsbury. Now having been raised in New England I was aware that Shrewsbury Academy in Massachusetts has a crew, so I said to my wife "I wonder if this team listed from Shrewsbury is from the States?" pronouncing "Shrewsbury" like a good American - just as the word looks, "shrews - berry." At which point the rather stately gentleman sitting in front of us turned around and said "Young man, it's pronounced Shrowsbru - get it right, you're hurting my ears!" I guess he'd have enough of the American tourists invading his space!