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Just saw this article on today's BBC web site. As
an American I was taken with the continued primary use of stones to measure mass
(and was at least a little relieved to see the equivalent measure limited to
kilograms with no mention of pounds in the conversions).
Of course, the reference at the beginning of the
article to "pounds" I see simply as an alliterative device ("piling on the
pounds") which doesn't concern me all that much. (Even in an all metric UK it
could still crop up as an _expression_.)
Here's the link:
Ezra
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- [USMA:31052] BBC article mixes units in a unique way Ezra Steinberg
