It definitely is a cultural thing. I initially read it the same way. I get equally thrown when I read about Victorians doing something modern in news from Aus

It definitely is a cultural thing. I initially read it the same way. I get equally thrown when I read about Victorians doing something modern in news from Australia. Or that a Cork man drowned in news from Ireland. There’s just a brief WAT? moment before your brain switches to the correct connect.