At 16:33 -0500 02/12/9, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
I had previously written about the French toise and verge. Could it be that the toise and verge were used to measure short and medium distances and that the aune was used to measure cloth, like the British ell?
Effectively the aulne was mostly use to measure cloth; the
verge was not really used in common language, as far as I know (as far
as I read...); the toise was the common unit for distances
bigger than, say, four or five pieds.
Louis
