Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 28, 1998, 23:06 |
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Pablo Flores wrote:
> BTW, what's the origin of the English names of measures ("yard", "pound",
> "gallon", "inch")? Does "mile" have something to do with the Latin root
> for Spanish _mil_ "one thousand"?
Yes. The word "mile" was borrowed by the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons
while they were still on the Continent. The Roman mile was equal to
1,000 paces - I think it was about 3000 feet, it was definitely shorter
than the modern mile.
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