I know OF them all because I am old, but I have only ever used two of them in anger. I am aware which are area, length, volume, weight etc., but NO CLUE what they mean, for example in terms of how far I would have to walk.
Of course, being a smartarse who wrote half of a book on measurement helps my familiarity with those and many that are more obscure. I also know how much a talent of gold (or other metal) weighs, and tend to laugh uproariously when someone asserts that it was a coin, which a surprising number of people do.
Last I looked, the Shekel seemed to be a matter of some considerable dispute (a factor of two or so, though some sources said that both ends had been right at different times, which seems entirely plausible). At least it is an actual coin, though :)
And I'm afraid I can give you at least three definite cubits and a couple more we don't have (and there may never have been) precise standards for. (How wide is Pharoah's palm, and can we measure it without being executed? ;-)
I know their approximate size in terms of each other (and other Imperial measurements) and in most cases know about how big/long/heavy I would expect them to be, without exactitude.
However, I prefer, despite my decrepitude, to use metric measurements (and even SI ones sometimes), except for furlongs, which are indispensable for horseracing purposes.
You are right, they are weights... But I know them as volumes (I can show you a block of polystrene the same size as 1oz butter, but I cannot show you 1 oz flour.
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Date: 2010-02-28 03:17 pm (UTC)And I'm afraid I can give you at least three definite cubits and a couple more we don't have (and there may never have been) precise standards for. (How wide is Pharoah's palm, and can we measure it without being executed? ;-)
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Date: 2010-02-26 08:20 pm (UTC)However, I prefer, despite my decrepitude, to use metric measurements (and even SI ones sometimes), except for furlongs, which are indispensable for horseracing purposes.
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Date: 2010-02-27 07:53 am (UTC)(I know what you are talking about - I just have that sort of mind.)
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Date: 2010-02-27 01:14 am (UTC)I have got mm, cm and m ok. Also liquids 1 cl up to a litre.
Weights between 1 and 25 stones or 1 gram to 5 kilo.
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