David Biddulph wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 25 Jun 2005:

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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The thing I noticed on our visit to Kansas was that distances were
measured in fractions of a mile, rather than yards - where we would say
there was an exit in (say) 200 yards, they'd put "3/8 mile"

That's why America seems so big, if 200 of their yards are 3/8 of a mile.
It would need 660 of our little English yards. :-)

Well, you know what I mean......
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"Mrs Redboots"
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