Anglish Twelvish Metings

The found in the English-speaking world today are a blend of the French Metric stellel (such as meters), and the older English  (such as yards). The Metric Stellel was grounded in ten. The English stellel, on the other hand, was mostly grounded in twelve. (See: Twelvish.)

The strength of a metric stellel is that it's grounded in a  stellel of  So, to go up and down, all you need to do is  a  rather than feelfolding by   with weird and  groundings and names. (Why three barleycorns to an inch, and twelve inches to a foot?) A straightened stellel of metings also helps worldwide trade, to bridge the sunder stellels of metings found about the world. However, in taking on the French metric stellel, we not only lost our names and metings, we also lost English folkmetings' greatest strength: that many of the metes are grounded in twelve.

Twelve, as a grounding, is more helpful than ten, as it has more. While ten can be split into: halves, fifths, and tenths; twelve can be split into halves, twelfths, sixths and most and helpfully, thirds and fourths. That's why it's found so widely in older metings, such as the twelve inches to a foot, twenty-four hours in a day (two lots of twelve), and three hundred and sixty in a  (five lots of six lots of twelve). If you to fourth a  clock, you end up with ugly and  tennish  and yet we put up with this in a tennish metric stellel.

Instead of tenning our stellel of metings, and borrowing the French names for the metes, we can instead keep our and wonly English names for the metes (See: What Is Anglish), and straighten them into both a more helpful, and wonly twelvish stellel.

Footmarks
1. Thumb is a name for inch, which is an early  loan. Feet and thumbs are so often brooked, that we reckoned it would be worth to keep them in the stellel.

2. We grounded the length upon the palm, as that would lead to fewer in the lengths of things than working with feet. The palm was to hand (another little-known, only a little bit longer) so that its name is Anglish.

3. Mile is another early Leeden loan. There is, however, no better name for something of that length.

4. I went with calling "square" metes "flat".

5. The acre is a furlong times a chain (shackle), which holds in this stellel.

6. In the US Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a "Township" is made up of 36 mile^2 "sections" or "lots".

7. The word "table" in "tablespoon" is a French loan. Netherlandish calls the meting an "eetlepel", and Theech calls it an "Esslöffel". Tablespoons are also often called "eating spoons", which is why we went with that.

8. Most soup cans hold about 27 inches^3 already.

9. Dole is grounded off a little-known dry meting for salt. Pough is grounded off of "poke", another little-known dry meting. (See: Anglish Wordbook.)

A. The pound was went so that: one pound is one can of water under the of   and at benchmark  and

B. The weight of a penny is a pennyweight. Hence, 100 pence is a pound.

10. "Ounce" means "twelfth".

11. The telredweight is grounded upon the wonly "hundredweight", which was "a hundred" pounds. (The meaning of "hundred" wasn't so sheer back in the day. Sometimes it meant 120 in tennish. Likewise, sometimes a hundredweight meant d112 pounds, whereas other times it meant d100 pounds.)

12. The slug was went so that a slug = a pound / (hand / blink^2), since m=F/a.

13. Clot, lump and hunk are all names we made up, whereas slug" and "blob are names already being brooked.