:: Couldn't let this pass ..
::
:: A yardstick is a yard which is 3' (3 feet

Whoopsy, school was so long ago :), but then I did tell someone the 
other day a guinea was 30/- instead of 21/-.

:: nterestingly a chain was a surveyors chain which comprised 100
:: links and was 22 yards long

Imperial measurements are just not cricket! Or are they? :)

A rarely used unit of measurement is the Nail, I think it was 2 inches 
to a nail.

Colin
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