[Hegemony Cricket]

14 square feet inside? Wow, how thick are those walls? Or did they really me 14 feet square?

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Hegemony Cricket for the ping, and PB for the topic. Not very mysterious, but very interesting! Normally this wouldn't get a ping (probably) but I gotta know what others can tell us about this. :') To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[muawiyah]

The Spanish used a very ancient personal measurement called the ELL OR EL

It is comparable to the English yard ~ but it's measured from the tip of the nose to the end of the index finger. That's 36" + 6" ~ which is roughly speaking 3'6". Four of those is 12' + 24" ~ OR 14'.

Mystery solved ~ about "Why 14'" ~ the guy used a Spanish measuring tape for an EL

For those into ANCIENT HEBREWS, they used the EL as well.

BTW this is all recent stuff with me. Had to study the name CORYELL ~ early settlers in what is now Jennings County Indiana ~ first settler type of deal. They seemed to already be around when other white folks first moved in, so what did their name mean.

In LADINO, it means 40 gallon Iron Pots and Yard Goods ~ that's the language of the Spanish Jews in the good old days ~ still used by one group of Sephardim.

So, now you know about the COR and the ELL! Jesus did too.