Richard Baker > >> 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.) > What about _miles_? It's as idiot as that.
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