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From: "2ju" <2ju@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 06:39:31 +1000
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"Bob Eager" <news0002@eager.cx> wrote in message 
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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.

There is no such thing as a correct term with something like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_spirits