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by amadeuspagel 910 days ago
The english people became powerful because english is such a good language.
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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

I would imagine it was more because of the island/shipbuilding supremacy thing.