Metric Iron-Age shoe

[nq:1]Announcing the discovery of a shoe from the late Iron Age in Wellington, Somerset, the BBC radio news man has just said it was "30 centimetres long". I call that a modernisation too far.[/nq]
Be fair - slightly later in the report he did say it was about a foot long. You want him to express it in fractions of ells or perches or cubits?
( i very nearly left out the "long", but as far

[nq:2]Announcing the discovery of a shoe from the late Iron ... was"30 centimetres long". I call that a modernisation too far.[/nq]
[nq:1]Be fair - slightly later in the report he did say it was about afoot long. You want him to ... cubits? ( i very nearly left out the "long", but as far as I know no IronAge foot was enclosed.)[/nq]
I missed the bit where he went all pre-Imperial. No, no f

Le mardi 10 mai 2005 à 19:33:16, Mike Lyle a écrit dans alt.usage.english :
[nq:1]Announcing the discovery of a shoe from the late Iron Age in Wellington, Somerset, the BBC radio news man has just said it was "30 centimetres long". I call that a modernisation too far.[/nq]
All shoes are one foot long.

10/05/2005 23:49:41
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Ahem!
now what about a horse shoe?

[nq:1]Ahem! now what about a horse shoe?[/nq]
[nq:2]All shoes are one foot long.[/nq]
How do you say one foot long in horse language?

[nq:1]Announcing the discovery of a shoe from the late Iron Age in Wellington, Somerset, the BBC radio news man has just said it was "30 centimetres long". I call that a modernisation too far.[/nq]
I think I can understand from a stylistic view they choose cm. To say that it was "a foot long" sounds a little odd in this context as you automatically expect, unless you're a clown, that the shoe

Le mercredi 11 mai 2005 à 00:07:13, Rodney a écrit dans alt.usage.english :
[nq:2]All shoes are one foot long.[/nq]
[nq:1]Ahem! now what about a horse shoe?[/nq]
Ah! You nailed me.

11/05/2005 00:09:55
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Lanarcam filted:
[nq:2]Ahem! now what about a horse shoe?[/nq]
[nq:1]How do you say one foot long in horse language?[/nq]
By stamping the ground..
Anyway, what about shoes you deal blackjack from?...r

Hehehehe. they are measured in "hands"

[nq:1]Lanarcam filted:[/nq]
(to someone who had written)
[nq:2]How do you say one foot long in horse language?[/nq]
[nq:1]By stamping the ground.. Anyway, what about shoes you deal blackjack from?...r[/nq]
Aren't they about a foot long?

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