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8 Sep 2024 01:15:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A small puzzle  
From: Stephen
Date: 24 May 2008 16:57:19
Message: <r70h34h1vrjhfb7o459h5m899mmqniif02@4ax.com>
On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:21:04 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>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. ;)

Of course they should ;)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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