'cause we'd all run into each other!

Hey Mingster, is it true this thread was originally going to be titled "Anyone seen my Mars probe?".

It was only recently that I read that the US doesn't use the term 'fortnight' to describe two weeks, or forteen nights. Still in use in England and Australia. Apparently there is also a term 'sennight' which means a week (or 7 nights) but that is not even used by the English any more.

[Edited by AusS2000 on 06-02-2001 at 07:12 PM]

 

Which reminds me. How many pounds in a "stone?"

 

And for all those Simpsons fans I looked up how many Drams in a Pennyweight. It's either 1.25 or 2.5 dependingon the application.

I vote for going back to drams, pennyweights, cubits etc.

 

Yeah, when I lived in Canada I confused everyone with talk of fortnights and stones (btw it's 14lbs to a stone).

However, I found the best way to confuse anyone was to ask for tomato (tomahto) sauce on my chips.

Translation: tomato (tomayto) ketchup on my fries.

 

In England we use the metric and imperial systems, can get very confusing especially as I work in engineering (converting thousands of an inch to microns )

 

hehe. I guess you know that in Canada they have ketchup flavoured crisps. Wierd how fish and chips is actually fish and fries

 

It was only recently that I read that the US doesn't use the term 'fortnight' to describe two weeks, or forteen nights. Still in use in England and Australia. Apparently there is also a term 'sennight' which means a week (or 7 nights) but that is not even used by the English any more.[/B][/QUOTE]

Sure we do. I use a speed measurement of furlongs per fortnight occasionally just to see if anybody is paying attention. Few are.

One of the things that I find interesting is the fact that Americans consider 8.5 X 11 paper 'standard' size when it seems the rest of the world is using A4.

 

ICEMAN - While the PE is primarily imperial units, real world isn't. In most of the classes I had to take, the problems were usually split about 50/50 in imperial/metric units. Thermodynamics was especially fun, ALL our charts/graphs/etc were in metric - and a long imperial problem took about 15 minutes just to convert everything.

Metric is MUCH easier to deal with in an engineering environment, which is another reason why imperial is being pushed out of that realm.

 

Depends on the stone. LOL

 

Good counter. Perhaps what he meant was in the NT things changed from the OT metric system