Asklemmy

Does up=off for British light switches? That's unhinged

Also, never gonna apologize for omitting pointless, silent letters from words. If the English wanted to maintain control of their language, they shouldn't have colonized half the world.

Upside down power switches, I did not know that, and I've even been to Great Britain briefly.

Not sure how I feel about that, the direction of gravity turns our switches off and they turn your switches on?

yeah but America employs all the UK actors to teach us how to behave and think.

If British customs haven't rubbed off on America, can we not say the UK actors have not done a great job at promoting the UK?

• we invented the modern car, y’all are driving on the wrong side of the road
• a switch is a switch, if you don’t like the direction it goes, just flip it over and put the cover back on, half the switches in my house go one way, and the other go the opposite way, some of them are even sideways.
• y’all sank the ship that had the US copy of the metric standard on it, and also invented the imperial system in the first place.
• if you look at the entomology, the US largely uses the original English pronunciation of things, it’s the British who have slowly changed their pronunciation over the centuries. We did have a guy who intentionally changed a bunch of the spelling, you are right about that.