[SOC] Off topic observations and a question

[Derek Wills]

    See  http://www.nhscot.org/HeavyAthletics.htm
    although it may not be the real origin...


> Today the stone is used mostly for stating the weight of 
> persons or animals. No -s is added for the plural

    No plural for hundredweight, either - strange.
    The Amurricans take this farther and don't pluralize
    or even pluralise "pair".   As in "I have 2 pair of
    tickets".   

    And their "in back of" for "behind" bugs me, although I
    realize/realise that we use "in front of" with no probs.

Derek aa5bt, g3nmx