[TR] Brit Money Definition

[Frank Fisher]

sorry Tim
a hundred weight is 112 pounds.
Frank
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Sent: Sat, October 24, 2009 6:30:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Brit Money Definition
A "Stone" is fourteen pounds. I think the only way it is used is to measure
one's own weight. At the doctor's office, one might be asked "how much do
you  weigh?", to which you'd have to be ready to say something like "twelve
stone  two", meaning twelve stones, two pounds, or 170 pounds. This is still
the  exclusive system used today in the UK.

A hundredweight (abbreviated to
cwt--always lower case for some reason), is 
one hundred pounds. Why that one
is so complicated when all the other UK  
measurements are so simple, I have
no idea. The use of cwt has dwindled to  
virtually nothing now, mostly
because weight (with the exception of the 
weight  of human beings) is metric,
so as not to mix the two different systems. 
I guess  a hundredweight equaling
a hundred pounds was too complicated.

Tim Dyer,  Proprietor
Kings Creek Trees
and Ornamentals
427 Kings Creek Road,  RR3
Ashton, Ontario, K0A 1B0, Canada
Phone/fax: 613 253 4126 Website: _www.kingscreektrees.com_
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