Posts by Bwana mkubwa

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

Wine worldwide is sold by the mL, in France by the cL. They sell wine boxes worldwide by 3 litres, 5 litres and 10 litres. Not sure which planet you are on.

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

The mile across Europe was was derived the Mille Passus or 1000 paces which is 2000 steps for a "mile". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mille_passus: mīlle passūs n a Roman mile of 8 stadia (“stades”); 1,000 passūs (“paces”); or 5,000 pedēs (“feet”), approximately 4,854 English feet. It varied from town to town and country to country, hence a country mile.

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

A 2 by 4 in the US is a name not a measurement, as it probably is in Britain and from my knowledge of buying them and 2 by 6's they keep getting smaller.