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Re: Wire Gauges
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David Pickett <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:38:41 -0600
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At 10:47 01-02-08, ANDREW NOLAN wrote:

 >I am always amused when a US retiree (there are quite a few here in
 >Queensland) during a medical consultation asks when how many stones
 >and pounds they weight after I have given it in kilos. Stones? you
 >measure weight in rocks?

These US people must have been retired a long time.  I have never met 
the stone as a unit of weight in the USA.  It is a British unit: 
Americans always use pounds.

david

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