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Originally Posted by rayjay
I'm annoyed that the spell checkers on Firefox/and my computer don't give the option for Canadian english such as colour as opposed to color.
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Oh I hear you - drives me absolutely nuts. I'm British, so my spelling is more like the Canadian spelling. I apparently still say "tomato" wrong though
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Originally Posted by BlueWorldAquatic
Funny thing is we use "gallons" and "inches" still commonly in the aquarium world.
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Once you strip away the political stuff, people will generally use the most convenient unit for the task - feet, inches and gallons naturally fit for the scale of the average aquarium so measurements in feet and inches make more sense than in say, millimetres or a decimal value in metres.
In temperature there's not such a difference, so you see Celcsius and Fahrenheit being used depending on what people are more used to.
When confusion arises, I find Google is very handy for converting units, you just type in what you have and what unit you want it in.
e.g. "25C in kelvin" or "25C in F"