Re: CHAT: Temperature /Food and Drink

Quoting bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:

>  --- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote: > >Well,
> > I dropped 20
> > lbs./~10kg.  in 2 months........
>
> utterly off topic, and yet strangely on topic :
>
> is britain unique in measuring people's weights in
> stone ? i measure weight of people in stone and height
> in feet and inches but stick to metric for everything
> else.
My impression is that it's pretty exclusive to England,
and perhaps a few anglophiles.  It's entirely opaque to
Americans, even if we still use the Customary System
(it's not quite the same as the Imperial System).

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