Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@lazarus3271. these measures are human in scale, and indeed mostly vase don the human body, rather than top-down arbitrary state-regulated things. Their survival is only posisble in free countries, hence their rapid disappearance in modern Britain... — PolitiTweet.org

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Posted March 8, 2023

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@lazarus3271 Six feet (the French equivalent is a 'toise'). I like to keep English customary measurements in use, likewise referring to furlongs (a foreign 'kilometre' is five of these, while an English mile is eight) , chains (still used in cricket and on railways) ... — PolitiTweet.org

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Posted March 8, 2023

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3/4 .@lazarus3271. Fathoms are not archaic. In the days when we had a proper Navy, the one that won the Battle of the Atlantic, Admiralty charts were measured in fathoms and soundings were taken in them. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate that this might be the first time I have ever heard anyon… https://t.co/z0CWc9iHto

Posted March 8, 2023