From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <020eda3e731134e225958f0b66f5a0d8@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/units From: Geoff Collyer In-Reply-To: <00cb01c3c1d9$c57f63b0$89844051@SOMA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:54:07 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1e866e4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 You could also visit this page: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/avoirdupois and discover `ORIGIN from Old French aveir de peis `goods of weight'.