In the Netherlands and Belgium these folding measuring rods or carpenters' rulers are called duimstok, which would translate to 'inch stick'. It is possible to get them with metric/ifp graduations but also metric only. I have a metric only 'inch stick'. Meter sticks are very often used at schools to measure on the blackboard.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael-O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2003-09-03 12:34 Subject: [USMA:26813] Meter stick, yard stick, WTF stick?! > Hi, > > FYI in german there is still a word which calls ZOLLSTOCK! > > It is a foldable stick which reads in centimeters only, only the name > survived but the inches are gone a century ago! > > bye > >
