"FMurtz" wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:


"FMurtz" wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:


"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 10/01/2019 21:54, soup wrote:

My favourite is 4 X 2 wood (nominally 4 inches by 2 inches) yet sold
in metre lengths so you get things like :-


Was it ever 2" x 4"?

Always was and still is here.

Always been 4 be 2 here.

Bull****.
In my circle I have never heard 2x4 from anyone but yanks

I think I would tend to specify the larger of the two dimensions first -
4x2, rather than 2x4 - irrespective of whether the units were inches or
centimetres. But that's only a convention, not a hard-and-fast rule.