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Re: More and more weight/mass Units-STONES

At 09:19 PM 10/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
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?

12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
220 yards = 1 furlong
8 furlongs = 1 mile.

regards,

sarma.