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richard-john56 · 30-05-2022, 22:14

I use to do a paper round when I was young and collected money on a Friday evening this was imperial and then decimalisation came in which caused all manner of difficulties especially for the older people e.g. if they gave me a pound note and then I would give change of a 50p, some 10p's and a 5p and a 2p, 1p this really confused them.

Measurements we started to learn metric at school alongside imperial.

When I started my printing apprenticeship (5 years) you had to learn the print measurements of points and picas which converted to imperial exactly along with this terminology of thins, thicks, mids, ems, clumps, furniture, coin keys, 36mo, 4to, 42mo, 8vo (happy days).

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richard-john56 cf.addict Join Date: Apr 2022 Location: Kent Age: 68 Services: 1 gig broadband Posts: 104	Re: The return of the lb I use to do a paper round when I was young and collected money on a Friday evening this was imperial and then decimalisation came in which caused all manner of difficulties especially for the older people e.g. if they gave me a pound note and then I would give change of a 50p, some 10p's and a 5p and a 2p, 1p this really confused them. Measurements we started to learn metric at school alongside imperial. When I started my printing apprenticeship (5 years) you had to learn the print measurements of points and picas which converted to imperial exactly along with this terminology of thins, thicks, mids, ems, clumps, furniture, coin keys, 36mo, 4to, 42mo, 8vo (happy days).