Sujet : Re: [OT] Is English just badly pronounced French?
De : ahk (at) *nospam* chinet.com (Adam H. Kerman)
Groupes : rec.arts.tvDate : 31. Mar 2024, 20:51:48
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suzeeq <
suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
On 3/31/2024 10:56 AM, Rhino wrote:
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 06:35:33 -0700 suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com>:
. . .
While GB officially went metric, many people still use the Imperial
measurements, at least for linear measures, not so much for weight.
The Brits weigh themselves in "stones" not pounds or kilograms. (I
believe a stone is 14 pounds.) These stones are definitely not metric
but I'm not sure they can truly be called Imperial either since they
aren't used anywhere outside the UK, as far as I know.
Yeah, I don't know where stone comes from. I was thinking smaller, like
pounds and ounces.
These were literal stones of a uniform weight used in trade, and
depending on the trade good, varied from 6 pounds to 21 pounds. They
would have been used on a balance scale.
Yes, they are part of the Imperial system. Various acts of Parliament
starting in 1835 were intended to phase them out but that obviously
never happened.
As a matter of trivia, yes the British Imperial System and U.S.
Customary System use a unit of mass. It's called the slug. It's derived
from a hypthetical 1 pound force accelerating a mass by 1 ft/second squared.