Yes,

In the US we do lots of things backwards. We are still using feet and inches, gallons, etc. We write our dates backwards, 1 billion is really a thousand million instead of a million million, I can go on and on. hehe
I teach my students that we are the only ones in the world that do these peculiar things, but then most people in the world drive on the right hand side of the road.

We all have our eccentricities.