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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Your Name  wrote:   
      
   >Hence shoes (for example) here in New Zealand confusingly come either   
   >in UK or US sizings.   
      
   It took a while here before shoes supplied from China could be   
   depended upon to have US sizes than a much different one (presumably   
   UK) one.  (Occasionally you see metric sizes, too, but that's rare   
   here).   
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