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I was raised to speak (proper / homeland) English, so upon was engrained within my early vocabularium.

Now, living in North America for some time, it's become more of a personal preference, and as you were wise to point out, a matter of perceived agreeable dissonance.


To make it easy though, the resident desktop encyclo- offered me (you, us all) this definition for upon:

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi