![]() Pounds? Not pebbles? So 7 pounds is half a stone, and 3.5 pounds is a quarter stone? Oh no, a Quarter is 2 stones? Why? So what's 8 stones?. ![]() Wait, what now, Stones? What's a stone? 6.34 kilos? That's 14 pounds. I then moved here to Ireland and found that miles are still in use. Height was in inches and weight was in kilos! Finally when I got to school/university, it was all metric - meters, seconds, kilograms! - And I thought that was it, I had everything right in my head, people are 1-2 meters tall, places are 10s to 1000s of kilometers away - world made sense. My grandma had a weight measuring stick - that's right, a stick, with detailed markings etc - there was some sort of math to go with it, which I shoud try and dig out (note to self). ![]() They would use nazhika (24 minutes), vinazhika (24 seconds), and nazhi/para to measure volumes. Having said that, I grew up listening to elders refering distances in yards, furlongs, miles etc but often folks also say places where X amount of time away - and no they didn't use hours/minutes either. Sorry, I didn't mean to start a debate at all - each to their own. ![]()
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