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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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bombcar 910 days ago
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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moffkalast 909 days ago
I would imagine it was more because of the island/shipbuilding supremacy thing.
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