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Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
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"Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote in message 
news:op.xgcvqq1jo4et73@dell3100...
> On Sat, 24 May 2014 00:55:06 +0100, glen herrmannsfeldt 
> <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>> In alt.sys.pdp11 Dale R Worley <worley@shell01.theworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>>> The fortnight is little-used, but its meaning is clear if you look it
>>> up in the dictionary.  The problem with the stone is that there are
>>> two versions:  14 lb. and 20 lb, and since it is not used at all in
>>> the US, there's no way for a USanian to find out which definition is
>>> the one used for weighing humans.
>>
>> I remember when Canada sold gasoline (and probably other things)
>> in imperial gallons, which were 5/4 US gallons. (Or close to that.)
>>
> We don't have gasoline in the Britain, just petroleum.

Petrol, actually.

> I say pavement, you say sidewalk
> I say boot, you say trunk
> let's call the whole thing off.

The whole thing was never on.

>> I don't know which other units have US and Imperial versions different by 
>> some strange factor.

> Mr wikipedia knows

You sexist arsehole...

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon#Relationship_to_other_units

> apparently you (US, possibly Canada as well?) have a standard size cup 
> that is used in recipes, our cups are quite variable in size. Though a 
> cylindrical one is called a mug.

So are some individuals.