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Warp wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] scott com> 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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