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[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Carol:
> I yield to your expertise on rods, chains, and furlongs, but surely
> twelve inches equals one foot and three feet equals one yard. That
> much I was taught, along with one mile equalling 5,280 feet or 1,760
> yards.
> 
> Carol, who was never taught any such tables, possibly because the
> teachers thought them outmoded

Geoff:
Urggh. How did I manage to miss that on proof reading? I think I've 
got a house-elf who changes my text as I hit the Send key.

Of course it's 12 inches = 1 foot.

< exit stage left muttering:
"Idiot, nitwit, blubber, oddment, nincompoop, clot, tweak"
while hitting self over head with 12 inch plastic ruler>