Re: An Hour a Week

Hey, it even exists elsewhere. A favorite button of mine gives the value
of the speed of light in *FURLONGS PER FORTNIGHT* (I don't have it to
look at here or I'd post the figure) and then continues after a colon:
NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA -- IT THE LAW!

On Fri, 23 May 1997, Cheryl Singhal wrote:

> On Thu, 22 May 1997, Stephen Hoar wrote:
>=20
> > (We won=92t even talk about a fortnight which nobody understands.=20
>=20
> Yankee. A fortnight is nothing but a British-ism for Fourteen nights. =
=20
> We still use it occasionally in Virginia.
>=20
> Cheryl
>=20

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