From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4017935eb3696bba1e6cffed3dbf2ddb@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/units In-Reply-To: <00cb01c3c1d9$c57f63b0$89844051@SOMA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-iusvhzguuucszxdjsifmdbovca" Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:42:15 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1dbcee8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-iusvhzguuucszxdjsifmdbovca Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1=09 avoirdupois (=CB=8C=C3=A6v=C9=99Rd=C9=99=CB=88p=C9=94=C9=AAz). Forms: 4 a= uoirdepeise, auer de peis, 4=E2=80=937 avoir de pois, 5 haberdepase, 6 auerdepaise, auer de poiz, haberdepoys, -poise, 6=E2=80=937 hauer de pois, haberde-pois, 7 averdepoi= s, aver-, haberdupois(e, haverdupois(e, 8 hauer-du-pois, 7=E2=80=93 avoirdup= ois. [A recent corrupt spelling of avoir-de-pois, in early OF. and AF. aveir de peis `goods of weight,' f. OF. avoir, aveir, property, goods, aver, de of, pois, peis (=3D Pr. pes, pens, It. peso):=E2=80=94L. *p=C4=93sum, pensum, weight. The first word had the variant forms of the simple aver, and the pronunciation remains =CB=88aver; the Norman peis was from 1300 varied with, and c=E2=80=891500 superseded by, the Parisian pois. The best modern spelling is the 17th c. averdepois; in any case de ought to be restored for du, introduced by some ignorant `improver' c=E2=80=891640=E2=80=931650.]=20 =E2=80=A01. Merchandise sold by weight. Obs. (c=E2=80=891600.) c1300 E.E. Poems (1862) 154 =C6=B7ur gret packes of draperie, auoir-dep= eise, and =CA=92ur wol sackes. 1388 Wyclif Ezek. xxvii. 16 Thei settiden forth in thi marcat gemme, and purpur..and cochod, ether auer de peis [1382 chodchod, that is, precious marchaundise]. [1392 Act 16 Rich. II, i. =C2=A72 Toutz marchants..qe achater ou vendre voillont bledz, vinz, avoir de pois, char, pesson, & toutz autres vivres & vitails.] 1502 transl. in Arnold Chron. (1811) 34 Cornes, wynes, auerdepaise, flesh, fishe, or odur vitayles. 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 137 To exercise other marchandises, as of Hauer de pois, and other fine wares, as sarcenets, lawnes, cindalles, and silke. 1618 Pulton tr. Act 27 Edw. III, Staple x, That Wools, and all manner auoir de pois, be weighed by the ballance. 1691 Blount Law Dict., Avoir du Pois..signifies such Merchandises as are weighed by this weight, and not by Troy-weight. 2. (More fully avoirdupois weight) The standard system of weights used, in Great Britain, for all goods except the precious metals, precious stones, and medicines.The a. pound contains 7000 grains. The a. weight of the United States agrees with that of Great Britain in the pound, ounce, and dram; but the hundredweight contains in U.S. 100, in G.B. 112 lbs., and the ton of 20 cwt. differs accordingly.=20 1485 Inv. in Ripon Ch. Acts 367, j par balance cum ponderibus de haberdepase. 1532=E2=80=933 Act 24 Hen. VIII, iii, Lawfull weyght, called haberdepois. 1543 Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 202 An other waight called Haberdepoise, in whiche 16 ounces make a pounde. 1594 Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 7 Vveightes that may agree vvith the auer de poiz. 1619 Dalton Countr. Just. lxv. (1630) 143 In this Averdepois weight..112 pounds make a hundred weight. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies 16 A trite discourse of weights and measures: most ponderously dividing them into troy and averdepois. 1647 Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 39 Weigh Rules by Troyweight, and not by the old Haber-du-pois. 1650 B. Discollim. 16 Weighed..at the..publick beam..not at..every Shop-keeper's Aver-du-pois. 1656 W. Dugard Gate Lat. Unl. =C2=A7536 Avoir-du-pois, wherewith wares are bought and sold. 1667 E. King in Phil. Trans. II. 450, 49 ounces (Haver de pois weight) of blood. 1669 Boyle Cont. New Exp. i. xxxiii. (1682) 112 Haberdupoise weight. 1701 J. Jones in A. J. Ellis E.E. Pron. i. iii. 220, h may be sounded in halleluiah, habiliment, hauer-du-pois, etc. 1755 Phil. Trans. XLIX. 184 So great a weight as twenty-six pounds avoirdupoize. 1806 Vince Hydrost. ii. 21 A cubic foot of rain water weighs 1000 ounces avoirdupoise. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. viii, The weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. 3. Weight; degree of heaviness. (Common in U.S.) 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 276 The weight of an hayre will turne the Scales betweene their Haber-de-pois. 1680 Hon. Cavalier 26 To make it more than Aver-du-pois. 1883 Atl. Monthly May (Football), Avoirdupois and strength are at a premium for rushing, blocking, and tackling. 2=09 avoirdupois (as prec.), v. rare=E2=81=B1. [f. the n.]=20 To have the avoirdupois weight of, to weigh.=20 1854 Badham Halieut. 231 A huge African fish..has been known to avoirdupoise one hundred and forty pounds. --upas-iusvhzguuucszxdjsifmdbovca Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Sat Dec 13 19:35:28 EST 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Sat Dec 13 19:35:25 EST 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 8089119B1C; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:35:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.8.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 7451D19B0E; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:35:08 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id C43E919AA0; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:34:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from ams013.ftl.affinity.com (lvs00-fl-n13.valueweb.net [216.219.253.195]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id E1DD419B16 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:34:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from SOMA ([81.64.132.137]) by ams.ftl.affinity.com with SMTP id <232446-14262>; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:33:49 -0500 Message-ID: <00cb01c3c1d9$c57f63b0$89844051@SOMA> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/units MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:32:34 +0100 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > Check your OED; `avoirdupois' is established as the English spelling, > even if it's incorrect French. i don't have one. iirc Z is used instead of S and 'colour' is spelt 'color' due to an early US dictionary SNARFU. --upas-iusvhzguuucszxdjsifmdbovca--