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StoneLifter
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Re: You are the cool ruler
Mar 01, 2006, 11:53
Oops, no, it's certainly not 14.5 inches - see here - http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ell1.htm . 45 inches by Order of Parliament. I wonder what my plate size is actually called. We used to measure drystone walls, for the Ministry, in yards - paced out. When they became DEFRA and changed to metres we continued to pace out the lengths, but called them metres. An officer came out with a tape measure last May and has rearranged things somewhat. We'd been overpaid but, as it's such a useless rate of grant anyway, there wasn't too much to pay back. The value of two deluxe memory men (2 x DMM), roughly.
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