-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 28/11/2002 16:29:48 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I wonder if the Brits still talk about "stones?" yes - and pounds and ounces and feet and inches too - (I am just over 12 stone in weight and a bit over 5 foot four in height) and, when we talk about horses we measure them in hands. Poles and perches have gone and you don't often come across furlongs nowadays. It's a much more interesting system than the boring metric system where everything's the same so you can't tell what anyone is talking about. All the best, Lawrence _______________________________________________ Horn mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn
