In the commentary of John Gruber on the renaming of Gulf of Mexico for US map users, I really like the below quoted line. What an envious club to be a part of!

There are three countries in the world that don’t use the metric system as their official units of measure: the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar. I expect there will be fewer — namely, one — who go along with calling it the “Gulf of America”.

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