. Now you know why I am so mixed up.. But anywho.. I thought
avoirdupois meant pound
or the FPS system as opposed to MKS/cgs (metric )
Rosie
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From: Sterling K. Webb
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 00:31:01
To: rochette
Cc: meteorite-list
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list
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William the Conqueror ( he was a granddaddy up the line ) and so was a King named Olaf ( I think he was Danish) ( pretty much Viking I would say )as well as some of those Louises and those Plantagenet fellows. Alexander the Great and Ptolemy and a couple of pharoahs.
Gregory,
Would this not (if fact) also directly imply that Rosie and Sir Rob
may in fact be kissin' cousins? More research would definitely be
in order.
Steve
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
William the Conqueror ( he was a granddaddy up the line ) and so
was a
Hi, Tom aka James,
Avoirdupois is the fancy French term for common British measures (like
pounds and ounces and gallons and miles and inches, and also less common ones
like ells and tuns and drams and rods and chains) which are called common
British measures except for the fact that the
Hi Tom
the use of avoirdupois measure is almost restricted to things other than
rock. What is common is the gram.
1 ounce avoir. equals 28.35 grams, 1 ounce troy equals 31.103 grams. What we
use is grams and kilograms (and of course, some sellers use pounds to help
those who can't quite grasp
Sterling wrote:
Hi, Tom aka James,
Avoirdupois is the fancy French term for common British measures
..
Well list I object!
this is not genuine french, just a british expression forged to look
like french. In the Web page:
Hi, Pierre,
Of course, Early Middle English is not just a British expression forged
to look
like French, but French as spoken by the British who were at that time
French, at least the moneyed (and language determining) classes, descendants
of the French who followed Guillaume de Normandie
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