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It blows our hivemind that the United States doesn't use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).
Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America's little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:
The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram
[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]
ISO 216 A series papers formats
AO
A1
A3
A5
A7
A6
Et.
A4
Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We're not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.
This is about as beautiful as a meter stick compared to a yardstick.
As in they both do a job, who cares
The Yard is the distance from the nose to the tip of the fingers from a random English king.
The meter is the distance from the equator to the North Pole divided by 10 000 000.
One is the creation of a fat monarch that knew nothing except of how to exploit the population. The other is a piece of identity from the earth itself. Created and agreed upon by a group of Scientists.
But you're right, how would an American know that