Andrew Smith scripsit: > One of my personal language favourites was finding that the word for pound > in Dutch now also means half-a-kilo in metrics. Ditto in French and German, but not Italian, where it means 1/3 kg. (Apparently the local pound in Italy, or parts thereof, was rather smaller than elsewhere.) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.