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Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) by bombcar on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:39PM (#38758480)
The wane of the British empire and the waxing of the American one coincides with them dropping the English measurements for metric.

It's not coincidence, it's causal :D

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