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[Roy Coates]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Gene Buckle wrote:

> > Damn. All my stuff is 8x4, not 4x8  :/
> >
>
> Jeeze, those silly UKians and their metric plywood.  *sigh* :)


It's not that long ago, in the UK, you could buy lumber in sizes where
then length was in metres, and the other two dimensions were imperial.

We still call a "2 by 4" a "2 by 4" though :-)


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Roy Coates.
Dept of Engineering.
Liverpool University.
E-Mail: r.coates at liv.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 794 4862
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