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8 Sep 2024 03:14:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A small puzzle  
From: andrel
Date: 24 May 2008 14:20:19
Message: <48385C90.6000900@hotmail.com>
Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:26:36 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> On Sat, 24 May 2008 16:36:07 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You might. Probably my mistake, I should also have mentioned that we 
>>>> almost always abbreviate kilogram to kilo.
>>> As do we in the UK
>> So, how would you call a device to measure kilos?
> 
> Scales, kitchen scales for up to 1.5 kilos, bathroom scales for
> people. Vehicles are weighed on a weighbridge. Sometime scales are
> called a balance if they are very accurate.

Well, IMHO they should be called kilometers. ;)


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