[LMB] Miles's exact height?

[Phil Boswell]

On 02/08/06, James <cessnadriver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which then begs the question, does anyone regularly give their weight
> in stones versus pounds these days? Or do people actually actively ask
> for a person's weight in stones?
> Or do people do it to be fancy?

Here in the UK it's the standard idiom.

Metric is unusual, and this "400-pound gorilla" thing makes for some
painful mental arithmetic ;-)
-- 
Phil