Dick Twitchen Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said: Anyway a metre is a musical term, so do we drive along in time to the music? What shall we do with a ........? This is the original French spelling, as opposed to the Americanism of Meter, perhaps now moving into a thread drift discussion on Multi Meters, or hopefully not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unkel Kunkel Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 A friend told me a tale about going to buy rope from a chandlers. The rather formidable elderly woman who ran it enquired “ How many fathoms do you want?” “Err ,how big is a fathom?”he enquired. She bellowed for her husband to appear.At her command he meekly outstretched his arms (for an adult male = a fathom approx 6 feet ) to allow measuring to proceed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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