On Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:32 AM [GMT+1=CET], Jo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Marc Hug wrote:
Please don't say "everywhere" when you mean in the States... In
German too, a "Pfund" (same word as pound) is 500 g, and in French
"une livre" (= a pound) is 500 g again. Dutch people are not the
only ones who use the metrical system !
I know that this remains "completely off topic".
Marc H.
<snip>
It's also not pund in Dutch, but pond...
That was me. Whoops. One day I'll learn to type.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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