"Tish Silberbauer" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:39:25 GMT, "Christine K."
wrote:

Yoj wrote:
though. I know a meter is a little over 3 yards (about 39 inches) and
a
snips on both sides

A meter is a little over 3 *feet*, not yards. A yard is about 90
centimeters.

I knew that. I just goofed. I meant to say either 3 feet or a yard.

I don't do temps in F without my self-made conversion list, am fairly
useless in other imperial measures too. I do know that a pound is about
half a kilo, which gives me a ball park estimate of weights in lbs, but
ounces and cups and sticks and such... on no!

I'm a bit like you Christina - I can do ball-park estimates of
conversions between imperial and metric weights and distance measures.
I haven't got the hang of F to C conversions (I think in C), except
for 0 C = 32 F and 100F = about 39C. Oddly, I think of people's
height in feet and inches, rather than metres and cm and I used to
think of people's weight in stones and ounces, although that changed
when we got a kg scale.

I mainly do imperial - metric weight conversions when I'm cooking and
trying, for example, to follow an Elizabeth David recipe (where all
the weights are imperial). BTW, does anyone here know what a "gill"
is and what it translates to in metric? I gather it's a liquid
measure, but I'm stumped as to how much it actually us!

Cheers,
Tish