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Roland Perry · December 29th 11, 09:34 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 15:11:30
on Thu, 29 Dec 2011, remarked:
People are still weighed in stone, with 1 stone equalling 14 pounds.

It depends where you're looking. The NHS has been into kilos since at least
when my elder daughter was born in 1986.

I don't recall ever having domestic scales in stone (always pounds), but
perhaps those huge coin-in-the-slot ones in public places were stones
and pounds. The growth charts my children had in the early 90's (they
were weighed regularly and the results put in a little red folder) from
the NHS were bi-lingual, in both Kg and Lbs.
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Roland Perry