Re: CHAT: browsers

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> As for still using pounds, but metric ones, you would
> have a point in Holland. Here the "pond" is still in common use, and is exactly
> 500g. Less commonly used but I've heard it sometimes is the "ons", which is
> exactly 100g here :)) .
In Italy it's either 1/3 kg or 300g, I'm not sure which, approximating
the old troy pound of ~ 373 g (named after Troyes, IIRC) that was used
to measure gold and silver.

1 kg is an awkward amount of food, I think; it makes some sense to have
an informal unit for 500 g.

> This Commonwealth thing seems to make things quite complicated .
Actually, to belong to the Commonwealth, you merely have to recognize
QE2 as the head of the Commonwealth.  It includes quite a few countries
that are republics (e.g. India and Pakistan), some that have their own
monarchs, and even some (e.g. Mozambique) that were never British colonies
at all.

In principle, France could join tomorrow.  And Hell will freeze over
the day after.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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