Steve Holden wrote: > The last time I was in a UK builders' yard I hear someone asking for > "two meter pieces of two by four". At the time the UK was notionally > metric (and the timber was planed to the nearest metric size) but the > old names still survived.
Yeah, a 2x4 is still a 2x4 here as well. It's English, even the native speakers don't really expect it to make sense all the time ;) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
