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Re: Re: cwt

To: archer@hsi.com
Subject: Re: Re: cwt
From: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 08:14:20 pst
> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 23:22:41 -0400
> From: Garry Archer <archer@hsi.com>
> To: british-cars@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re:  cwt
> 
>       The hundredweight (the 'c' in cwt is Roman for 100) is and always
> has been 112 pounds in Britain... and others may correct me if I'm wrong,
> but I believe its the same in most places around the world.
> 
> Of course, Americans have been trying to redefine the English language

Hmmm.  Kinda like a baker's dozen or a guinea, ah?


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