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On Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:18:47 +0100, Hibou wrote:

>    A sixty-four-kilogramme weakling A ten-stone weakling

Neither of those mean anything to me without a bit of mental math. Is 
'stone' used for anything but body weight anymore? As I understand it 
there were a number of different stones depending.