On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:01:29 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:

> Listing all these things and 
>saying imperial measurement is thus confusing is like complaining there 
>are fortnights *and* weeks.

You probably know that fortnight is a contraction of fourteen night,
and you can still find "fourteen night" in 19th cent literature. Seven
days/nights was originally a "sennight or sevennight" and a week is a
unit of time longer than a day and shorter than a month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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