Richard Baker wrote:
>
> Jon said:
>
> > Can any of our British Brinnellers explain how many pounds a ":stone"
> > is?
>
> I thought that's the sort of arcane fact that only Americans know.
> (dictionary.reference.com tells me it's 14lbs, but also says that it
> varies with the article weighed[!] so that a butcher's stone is 8lbs, a
> stone of cheese 16lbs, of hemp 32lbs and of glass 5lbs. I don't think
> I've ever heard anything quite so absurd.)
For weighing human beings, it's 14 lbs. I went and looked it up one day
in high school after being unable to answer the question of a friend of
mine (who was born and raised in England until she was 14 years old or
so) as to how many stone did I weigh? (The answer then was 7 or so.)
So Sammy weighs almost 2 stone. :)
Julia
not going to say anything about her own weight today
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