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from Gary Woods contains these words:

Kay Easton wrote:

Or even 9st 4 lb, where the stones are decimal but the pounds are to
base 14 ;-)

We colonists have 16-ounce pounds. Everything bigger and better, you know!

Except your poor little colonial pints and gallons.

We too have 16-ounce pounds. Kay's talking about 14 pounds make one stone.
:-)
Janet.