On Sunday, 2002 May 05 1239, kilopascal wrote:
> THE CHRISTIAN AND COMPULSORY METRICATION
>
> By Tony Bennett
....
> ... These are all units easy for the human mind to conceive and nearly all
> of which can conveniently be divided into halves, quarters, sixths, etc.,
> which is difficult in the metric system. ....
OK, so let's say that I've got this superb recipe calling for a quarter
stone of flour and a sixth of a pound of butter and a fourth of a gill of
water.....
Since you didn't send the URL, John, I am unaware of the source of this
article. Where did you get it? Where was it published?
Jim
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