It's the units that are misleading. When I moved to the US, I was like "WTF is going on here?" for a few months until I found out that Americans just apparently

It's the units that are misleading. When I moved to the US, I was like "WTF is going on here?" for a few months until I found out that Americans just apparently couldn't be bothered to keep the prefix. ("Hell, we don't even use SI units anyway so who cares!"??)