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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 08:19:18 +1000
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"Bob Eager" <news0002@eager.cx> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 25 May 2014 06:39:31 +1000, 2ju wrote:
>
>> "Bob Eager" <news0002@eager.cx> wrote in message
>> news:bubna0Fmh2vU4@mid.individual.net...
>>> 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
>
> Perhaps not; to a point I agree with you. However, it is the dominant
> term in the names of documents etc. associated with the UK regulations
> pertaining to the substance in question....!

Sure, but that is just the rather quaint old fashioned
terminology so often seen in regulations.