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Subject:Re: Measurements in the UK From:Sandy Harris <pashley -at- storm -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:15:50 -0400
Sean Brierley wrote:
>
> A stone in the U.K was 14 pounds before SI came along, now it should be
> gone. As a unit of measure, stone is not used in the USA. Dunno about
> Canada.
It isn't used in Canada.
> And, about measuring things by the "hand," don't, it's impolite
It's the standard way to measure the size of a horses. A hand is four
inches, you measure height at the shoulder, and anything under 12
hands is a pony.
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