Chris Hogg wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:35:45 GMT, "**bg**"
wrote:
Shorter distances memorize 15 cm = 1 foot

Jolly small feet over there!

You know!! He's given me a headache! Not only it took me 25 years to
learn that damn inch, oz, pint, foot and pound ... I'm so glad we're
going metric. Sorry for you folks but as bg said, and he's got a point,
you need to visualise it for sure. Studying horticulture has given it a
new angle - now we've got both measurement methods given, and that very
much confuses everybody (