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   From: johnwilliamson@oysterbroadcast.co.uk   
      
   Don Pearce wrote:   
   > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:53:37 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In message   
   >> ,   
   >> rrusston@hotmail.com writes:   
   >> []   
   >>> In Britain they will still refer to people,  fat people especially as   
   >>> being "so many stone". And they used a lot of units we never did in   
   >>> daily matters.   
   >> Not just fat people - "seven stone weakling" is a not-unknown   
   >> expression.   
   >   
   > We mix our units much more than that. Take temperatures - if it is   
   > near freezing we use Centigrade, when it is hot we use Fahrenheit.   
   >   
   >>> (excluding the US and Canada) and Japan, drive on the wrong side of   
   >>> the road, AS COMPARED TO_EVERYWHERE_. Sorry, but THAT is weird. The   
   >> It's not the wrong side, it's the left side (-:.   
   >>   
   >   
   > UK, Australia, New Zealand, India. All left side (proper side)   
   > drivers.   
   >   
   Add Japan and most of Africa (Where the drivers don't just stick to the   
   ruts, which normally match the track of a Land Rover.   
      
   Currently, the split is about 50/50 in terms of the number of countries   
   which drive on which side.   
      
   --   
   Tciao for Now!   
      
   John.   
      
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