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[jonny_mc]

Why isn\'t the number 11 pronounced onety one?

[mark]

for the same reason 21 isn\'t tooty one

oh yeah and a little bit down to arabic astonomers around 200BC who devised te decimal sytsem

[KeithB]

another question: wtf has that got to do with shore fishing???

[jonny_mc]

hey keith a got bored man....chill oot

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

It\'s a bit like going the fruit shop and buying a pear.....and only getting one !!

[Ell]

another question: wtf has that got to do with shore fishing??

A onety one lb cod perhaps

Why don\'t we say Lerb (lb) instead of pound?

[Edited on 18/2/2005 by Ell]

[mark]

Why don\'t we say Lerb (lb) instead of pound?

[Edited on 18/2/2005 by Ell]

from the latin plumbate, deriv: of lead, hence plumber, a pound was a standard avoirdupois measure of lead which has a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec (lbf orginally!)

Also from libra the latin for pound

and for what its worth, in old money, there were 240 pennies to the pound, which came from the Carlovingian period when the Roman pound (twelve ounces) of pure silver was coined into 240 silver pennies

I need to get out more

[Edited on 19/2/2005 by mark]

[Ell]

from the latin plumbate

Why don\'t we say \"LatPlumb\" then?

[TC]

\"From the latin plumbate, deriv: of lead, hence plumber, a pound was a standard avoirdupois measure of lead which has a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec (lbf orginally!)

Also from libra the latin for pound

and for what its worth, in old money, there were 240 pennies to the pound, which came from the Carlovingian period when the Roman pound (twelve ounces) of pure silver was coined into 240 silver pennies\"


YEP, I thought as much, meself



[Edited on 19/2/2005 by TC]

[Ell]

Pure showing off Tony, ignore him!

[jonny_mc]

mark take it you done:

www.google.com
then search:currency
search: weight
search:you do need to get owt more!

[mark]

mark take it you done:

www.google.com
then search:currency
search: weight
search:you do need to get owt more!

not quite jonny, although I did use googles \'define\' function for the bit about romans! (go on tell me you don\'t know about googles extra functions!)

[bribones]

lumpenproletariat

[jonny_mc]

nah i did mark.......honest
scouts promise.........lier1

[sless]

its scouts honour
not promise
you were never a dib dib were you jonny