http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/column-8/column-8-20130321-2gior.html
Sydney
Morning Herald
22
March 2013
Column
8
[...] Richard Boyd, of Gordon, tells of the
time in 1972 when his wife Judith filled in a form in Canada that
asked for her weight, ''which she wrote down as '10st 10lb'. The official, on
checking her answers, said 'We don't want to know how much you've lost, we need
to know what you weigh now,''' Richard recalls. ''Back then they used pounds
only over there, never stones, so when you look at how it would have read to
them ...'' [...]