I hope it’s not against the rules here, just saw this woodworking related xkcd that I enjoyed and thought it might be appreciated here:)
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Or they'd pull a Worcestershire and pronounce "Inch and a half" as a "chunnauff." Gotta get that unnecessary U in there somewheure.
2 weeks is a fortnight, so is 2 feet a fortinch?
I'm informed the British do read the time 6:30 as "half six", a shortened form of "half past six". So "inch an a half" might become "incuax", pronounced as "in-cha" and containing the unnecessary U, and an X for that Norman/French faux lineage.
Naturally, Americans would instead pronounce it as "in-coh", which would destroy any understanding when also speaking about Incoterms.
In Kentucky it's a "tuba-fur"
In the Carolinas it's a tew-bah-fower. It's made of yella pahn, bout ate feet lawng, they got a whole mess of em down at the Lowe's, most of em are sigogglin these days.
I'd say 14 inches is a fortinch duh