Subject: Re: Metric vs inches

From: [email-masked] (Steve Rayner)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:38:44 GMT

A fortnight is two weeks.  The term is still in use in the UK, and some 
commonwealth countries, but not Canada.

How about the French & Swiss " Ligne ", used into the 1930s in the watch 
industry.  It converts easily to inches.
-- 
Steve.

**************  BE ALERT, THE WORLD NEEDS MORE LERTS ************************

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From: [email-masked] (Mick Collins)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:09:01 BST

[email-masked] (Steve Rayner) wrote:

> A fortnight is two weeks.  The term is still in use in the UK,

 Where the expression "fourteen days" is reserved for prison sentences.

  -- 
      Cheers - Mick  -  [email-masked]

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From: burt lang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:47:10 +0000

> industry.  It converts easily to inches.

It could be worse.

In a 1853 copy of "Templeton's Engineer, Millwright and Mechanics Pocket
Companion"  the following table appears (abridged to save space and
typing):

Length of a mile in different countries, given in yards.

Dantzic  8474 yards
Germany  6859
Hanover  1155
Hungary  9113
Ireland  2240
Poland   8239
Portugal 6760
Russia   1167
Spain    4634
Switzerland  9153

Just a couple of miles down the road, eh!!!!!!!

This book contains similar tables for pounds and feet.

Thank goodness for Metric

Burt>>>>