How to Count 'One Mississippi' Around the World
by Beth Skwarecki from Lifehacker on (#5T0GT)
I know I'm not the only one who learned to count one Mississippi, two Mississippi" as a kid. The idea, of course, is that when you insert those words between your numbers, the pace of your counting will roughly match the seconds on a clock. But Mississippi can't be universal around the world, can it? A redditor asked...