On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:28:10 -0400 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 03:18 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > doug writes: > >> Thanks to Artha, which is billed as a Thesaurus, but is a really > >> useful dictionary as well. It's in the pclos repos, don't know > >> about other distros. > > "units" knows about kilderkin, and just about any other unit of > > measure you can imagine. > > you're right! It even knows this: > > You have: furlongs per fortnight > You want: miles per hour > * 0.00037202381 > / 2688 > --doug > > > > BTW a kilderkin is two firkins. Not to be confused with merkin, although the two will quite often be associated. Merkin also has a secondary meaning other than this also, as a contribution to the Anglophile's dictionary. An alternative to USian. Kindly donated by President Johnson. Regards, Weaver. -- "In a world without walls and fences, what need have we for Windows or Gates?" -Anon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111006091304.4193649d.wea...@riseup.net
