American erotica novel: he inched ever closer to me.
Canadian adaption: he 2.54 centimetered ever closer to me.
I’m not gonna lie, once I wrote “they were centimetres apart”, and someone commented that they were confused because they didn’t know I was Canadian.
I also wrote “it was like, thirty degrees outside yesterday”, once as well, and someone commented something along the lines of, “wow, must be been freezing even though you mentioned they were hot. There’s too much inconsistency in your writing!”