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Interestingly enough, the inverse of your comment is true here. "Gallons upon gallons" as a superlative, and drinks in pubs are the two uses of imperial liquid
by Macha 4y ago
Interestingly enough, the inverse of your comment is true here. "Gallons upon gallons" as a superlative, and drinks in pubs are the two uses of imperial liquid measures here
- lowercased 4y agoI watch a moderate amount of UK tv, and I'm still (decades later) surprised when one UK person says to another UK person "you look a million dollars!". "You look a million pounds" doesn't sound the same. "You look a million quid!" might be better?
- Macha 4y agoPounds has the double meaning as a unit of weight and so a million pounds has a unintended double meaning, which may be part of why the dollar version gets used