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In the timber merchant today.

"I want some 4 x 2 please,"

"What length?"

"2.4 metre."

"Anything else?"

"Some 18 mm ply."

"What size?"

"4 ft x 2 ft."

We haven't quite adopted this metric lark, have we?



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