this has always bugged me - to me it sounds like such a lot when you say you weigh 150 pounds or whatever ????? can someone help me out why is it this way
2006-06-26 07:34:04 · 12 answers · asked by debbie b 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
1 stone is equal to 14 pounds to all who dont know !!!!!
2006-06-26 07:42:57 · update #1
Stones is a European weight measure although it's still Imperial (NOT METRIC) it's made up of pounds. Anyway not all English and American weight/volume measures are the same. Our Gallons are different and so are our tons. Even our billions are different!!!!! We're just different so there you go!
2006-06-26 07:47:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
14 lbs = a million stone 112 lbs = a million hundredweight 2240 lbs = a million long ton P.S. Canada's imperial gallon is better than US gallon, yet now they use the metric litre, merely over a quart. I used to ought to learn all this in England as a baby, till I got here to Canada then they went metric. English money became diverse then too. Twelve pence = a million shilling. Twenty shillings = a million pound sterling. One pound and one shilling = a million Guinea. We used to sing: kilos shillings and pence the instructor's have been given no experience. He went to college to act the fool, kilos shillings and pence!
2016-12-08 12:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LBS come from a Spanish word referring to weight. Is was probably used in the early westward expansion days when the early united states was moving west in North America. That's when the conflicts with the Spanish have come up. So the word probably was used then and then use now.
2006-06-26 07:40:09 · answer #3 · answered by Elpbulldog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many times have you divided 200lbs by 14 without a calculator. P.s. 14lbs = 1 Stone
2006-06-26 07:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by ♣ My Brainhurts ♣ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are badly in need of small encouragements.
I mean losing TWO pounds sounds much more of an achievement as compared to losing 0.907 Kilograms ( ouch! not quite yet a kilo)
;-))
2006-06-26 07:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by Tula T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the scales in the US are sold in pounds. No real reason to change.
2006-06-26 07:39:23 · answer #6 · answered by jumpingrightin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How much is a stone? That has always bugged me! I thought it was slang.
2006-06-26 07:37:59 · answer #7 · answered by skinnykitty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we're retards and refuse to change to the metric system.
If it hasn't happened yet, it's not going to happen. Get used to it.
2006-06-26 07:38:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
thay proberly dont know what stones are
2006-06-26 07:37:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are stones?
2006-06-26 07:40:00 · answer #10 · answered by Toodles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋