Yes it's another poll

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1531007]

Comments

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

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.

[johannes-d.livejournal.com]

It's easy an acre is a furlong long and a chain wide

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

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.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

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.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't live in a sensible country any more, but my brain still thinks it does for most things other than road distances.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of them because my brain doesn't do measurements.

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.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I only know a few, but not because my country's metric (or, alas, because I'm young). Just ignorant, I guess. :-)