Bryan,

Regarding your statement of January 2nd @ 3.39 p.m.

"Or we could just have 10 av.lb. for 1 av.st., or 20 av.lb. for 1 av.scorewt."

Bryan, all weights use the stone, and everyone of them is fourteen pounds. In the case of avoirdupois weight:

1 av.st. = 14 av.lb.

A scoreweight is not twenty pounds. Whenever you see a number with "weight" in it, that increases the number. Whatever the number said, that's not the number, because it's got weight on it, as the word itself states. "Score" means twenty, so whatever scoreweight is, it's greater than twenty. In fact scoreweight is always twenty-one pounds.

Hundredweight is not 100. So Bryan, put some weight on it.
Scoreweight is not 20. So Bryan, put some weight on it.
Nailweight is not 1/16. So Bryan, put some weight on it.
Pennyweight is not 1/60. So Bryan, put some weight on it.

1 av.scorewt. = 21 av.lb.
1 av.scorewt. = 19 9/64 merc.lb.
1 av.scorewt. = 15 5/16 tron lb.

1 merc.scorewt. = 21 merc.lb.
1 merc.scorewt. = 23.040 av.lb.

1 tron scorewt. = 21 tron lb.
1 tron scorewt. = 28.800 av.lb.

So, Bryan, now that you have the facts: "PUT SOME WEIGHT ON IT" @ site:

http://www.weights-and-measures.com

And topics:

Merchant Weight
Tron Weight
old Avoirdupois Weight
New Avoirdupois Weight

Erm, mate, I was proposing that we ***change*** our weight system to the short weight system (100lb = 1cwt), but in order to break weights up, introduce either a 10lb "stone" or a 20lb one (call the new units whatever you like. I suggested stone and score or centon. I do not recall using the terminology "scoreweight", however)

Euric: No it hasn't.

xcole: The score is 20 or 21lb depending on location. In America the hundredweight is 100lb exactly.

To be honest, Bryan, I reckon the UK imperial system -as it stands - is best.

Changing it might dent it's huge popularity over metric in the UK.

Euric - you're always wrong. But at least your consistent.

Steve, I agree that changing it might dent its popularity (due to decreasing its familiarity). However, the system as it stands I am not entirely happy with.

Bryan, I'm almost getting the impression that you are a pro-metric, but your strategy is to advocate reforming the imperial system in order to create confusion and frustration which will in turn generate support for metric. I'm probably wrong, but in all honesty this is the impression that I'm getting.

Right... I generally prefer US weights and measures to UK ones. I don't get your point.

Also, I think that people might have noticed that I have generaly moved beyond trying to reform English as I realised for many reasons it is a pointless endeavour. I am now focusing on diffeent things. Regardless, my system of mark-dbl foot-quarsec is easily interfaceable with Englis hand would actually improve it for science. I do not see your point :)