How much is a stone?

[Reverend_Smitty]

in reference to weight...like saying that over there weighs 1 stone.

My roommate wants to know

thanks

[Kire]

1. I was wondering that the other day myself.

I never heard it until I was looking up heavy babies on the Guiness World Records site.

[Burma Jones]

2. 14 pounds

[rwenos]

3. 14 Pounds, I think

Can this be resolved by a Yahoo search?

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. I'm not sure how I would phrase that in a search engine

besides, DUers are smart cookies

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Fourteen pounds.

[ott]

5. 14 pounds

http://home.clara.net/brianp/weights.html

[Redneck Socialist]

6. 14 pounds

google is your friend

[Deja Q]

8. So are good DUers

:D

[MADem]

9. As someone who once lost a stone

...I can tell you that the above posters are correct...it is fourteen bloody pounds!

I must say, it sounds a lot better if you say "I must lose two stone" as opposed to "I have 28 pounds of flab to git gone!"

[derby378]

10. Which means I weigh over 20 stones

Vito and Johnny Two-Time would say I'm a monster of a man. Fuhgeddabouddit.

[kath]

11. How long is a league?

[amerikat]

12. see league here

league
a traditional unit of distance. Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe. It was intended to represent, roughly, the distance a person could walk in an hour. The Celtic unit seems to have been rather short (about 1.5 Roman miles, which is roughly 1.4 statute miles or 2275 meters), but the unit grew longer over time. In many cases it was equal to 3 miles, using whatever version of the mile was current. At sea, the league was most often equal to 3 nautical miles, which is 1/20 degree <2>, 3.45 statute miles, or exactly 5556 meters. In the U.S. and Britain, standard practice is to define the league to be 3 statute miles (about 4828.03 meters) on land or 3 nautical miles at sea. However, many occurrences of the "league" in English-language works are actually references to the Spanish league (the legua), the Portuguese league (legoa) or the French league (lieue). For these units, see below on this page.
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