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So what's 60mm in old money?
Bluechip:
--- Quote from: mklotz on November 09, 2012, 12:39:45 PM ---Aren't bathroom scales in the UK still calibrated in stones? Stones always seemed such a perfect unit for the folks who built Stonehenge.
My favorite unit has always been the perch. It evokes a mental picture of crazed, Monty Pythonesque, rag-clad peasants madly measuring a field with an enormous fish [named Wanda, no doubt}.
The acre, supposedly the area of land a man could plow in a day, was 40 perch long and 4 perch wide.
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In Stones, Pounds or kg. Depends where the switch is if they're digital.
It's 'Plough' BTW :)
Ellishly complicated, sorry ... :scratch: :scratch: :lol:
http://www.sizes.com/units/ell.htm
Dave BC
mklotz:
--- Quote from: Bluechip on November 09, 2012, 04:05:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: mklotz on November 09, 2012, 12:39:45 PM ---Aren't bathroom scales in the UK still calibrated in stones? Stones always seemed such a perfect unit for the folks who built Stonehenge.
My favorite unit has always been the perch. It evokes a mental picture of crazed, Monty Pythonesque, rag-clad peasants madly measuring a field with an enormous fish [named Wanda, no doubt}.
The acre, supposedly the area of land a man could plow in a day, was 40 perch long and 4 perch wide.
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It's 'Plough' BTW :)
http://www.sizes.com/units/ell.htm
Dave BC
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which you lot undoubtedly pronounce as "pluff" so it rhymes with "tough".
But then what can one expect of a country where "hundredweights" weigh 112 pounds?
mattinker:
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which you lot undoubtedly pronounce as "pluff" so it rhymes with "tough".
But then what can one expect of a country where "hundredweights" weigh 112 pounds?
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It's a bit like you pronounce Solder "soder" and "soldier" soldier idiomatic! Plough on!
75Plus:
Trying to figure out the old French Ligne and Pouce explains why France invented the metric system. The standardized conversion for a ligne is 2.2558291 mm (1 mm = 0.443296 ligne) which is 1/12 of a pouce. :doh:
Joe
Bluechip:
Matt .. I pronounce solder as just that, solder ... :thumbup: with an 'L'
Marv .. 'plough' is ploff, rhymes with 'cough' ... :)
Don't know if you are aware of this, I believe attributed to G B Shaw ..
'GHOTI' is ' FISH'
'gh' is 'f' as in 'enough'
'o' is 'i' as in 'women'
'ti' is 'sh' as in 'nation'
Dave BC
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