Re: Accents
| From: | Irina Rempt <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 7:56 |
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On Wednesday 09 January 2002 04:10, you wrote:
> <<
>
> Why is it that other countries have so much trouble converting?
> (Okay, people will give people's heights in feet and inches in Oz,
> but that's the
> only thing left, really.) I've heard tell that the Dutch use
> pfund(?) for
> half a kilo...
>
> For half a kilo? Odd approximation... And does Dutch have
> affricate /pf/?
(1) it''s "pond" [pOnt], we''re not German;
(2) it's not an approximation, it's exactly half a kilo, a metric
pound.
Irina
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