Re: British v. American Vocabulary


22 Sep 1995 20:16:23 GMT

Thus spake David S. Raley (RaleyD@ix.netcom.com):
] The funniest use of "fortnight" I can recall is a unit of measurement
] used in VAX computer systems: microfortnights. Since a microfortnight
] is about 1.2 seconds, why not jsut use seconds? I suppose the people
] at DEC must have an interesting sense of humor.

Well, 72 cycles / microfortnight sounds faster than 60 cycles/second,
no?
;^)
John

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