To: MNJohnnie
1 stone = 14 pounds.
I noticed from watching US TV shows that Americans don't use the 'stone' for measurement, someone expresses a weight in pounds, calculators are taken out in expressed in pounds!
2,703 posted on
11/08/2005 3:00:02 PM PST by
Irish_Thatcherite
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To: Irish_Thatcherite
weight in pounds
But our system is called the English, as oppose to Metric, weight system!!! Why don't WE have "Stone"?????
2,708 posted on
11/08/2005 3:01:58 PM PST by
MNJohnnie
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To: Irish_Thatcherite
You are correct. We don't use "stones."
2,712 posted on
11/08/2005 3:04:36 PM PST by
sionnsar
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