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Re: More and more weight/mass Units-STONES

At 11:58 10/20/99 +1000, you wrote:

... units that I have found American colleagues to be
unfamiliar with are "furlong" and "fortnight".
Brian McInnes

Fortnight from fourteen nights, yes indeed:
but furlong?
...from furrow's length of a (ten acre) customary
old field size. Very antique!

More ominously: Guinea - gold coin first minted for the
African trade as a nominal 20 shilling piece 20/-
for its first half century, then fixed at 21/- for the
next century or so until 1813, it says here.



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK