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kph? Even if you don't work with SI units, just don't invent wrong ones. If lost, ask someone who knows. The correct abbreviation for "kilometers per hour" is km/h
While km/h is the official SI symbol, kph isn't just "made up". It's a quite widely used unofficial abbreviation.
Probably in non-SI countries...
Used commonly in NZ too, which is a metric country.
I don't think my teachers would have been impressed with me in school if I claimed to be using the 'unofficial spelling of words' or citing 'unofficial facts'. You either have one standard... Or none at all.
Well, yeah. School is supposed to teach you how to do things properly. But people tend to forget a lot of that after leaving school and just do what they want.
And they are of course at liberty to do so, just as people who didn't forget their lessons are equally free to call them out for it. If I insist on using the spelling 'leburthy', I don't get to complain if somebody else makes me feel like an uneducated fool in short order.
Which - given that this is the Internet - will undoubtedly happen very swiftly indeed.
You used single quotes when double quotes was the correct usage. You also put your comma outside of the quotation mark instead of inside.
It's a good thing we aren't in school where they (are supposed to) teach you the exactly correct thing.
They also teach you in school that you don't capitalize the first letter after an ellipsis, but you just did. It's almost like, and I'm just spitballing here, it's OK and generally acceptable in unofficial writing to make minor mistakes that are common enough.
They also teach you in school that you only use single quotes if your quote is inside of another quote. So why did you use single quotes twice in your unquoted sentence?
As for your statement that you either have one standard or none at all. Have you heard of the Oxford Comma? Have you read the rules for whether you put an apostrophe s after a singular possessive noun that ends in s? Even within a single country we can't agree on common rules for a language.
You're absolutely right
And the correct abbreviation of miles per hour is mi/h, but nearly everyone writes mph. Speedometers use mph and km/h, but I've seen kph a bunch.
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