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From: Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
Date: 24 May 2014 14:05:52 GMT
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On Sat, 24 May 2014 20:37:28 +1000, 2ju wrote:


> 
> "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.

Petroleum spirit is, I believe, the correct term.



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