Warp wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
>> In the UK at least, I think "10 feet square" would be universally understood 
>> by everyone to mean a square shaped area with sides of length 10 feet. 
>> Doing a quick google.co.uk of "feet square" reveals this to be the case.  It 
>> might not be scientifically correct, but everyone where I come from 
>> understands it like that.
> 
>   All for the sake of saving a "by 10"...
> 
Now if the Finns had been invaders as well as the Danes, Norwegians, 
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, French, Romans and Spanish then you would have 
had a say in our language ;)



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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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