Word Ways
Abstract
In a world where our weights and measures are increasingly being standardised to the efficient but dreary metric system, it is hard not to feel some sort of pang at the disappearance of the gloriously erratice measures of former days: the cubits and the ells, the arsins and the versts, leagues, grains, catties, scruples, and candareens. But all is not lost. "Fishy Measure", which I discovered in a copy of "Loyd's Calendar" for 1955, is hopefully continuing strong in the bleak wastes of the Outer Hebrides, at least. Here is the table in its entirety:
Recommended Citation
Laycock, Don
(1988)
"Immeasurably Fishy,"
Word Ways: Vol. 21
:
Iss.
4
, Article 12.
Retrieved from:
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol21/iss4/12