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In article <32E00C9C.4996@cs.purdue.edu>,
	Markus Kuhn wrote on Fri, 17 Jan 1997:
> Rainer Thonnes (rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
>> I think you'll still find people buying their apples by the
>> pound, even in Germany.
> 
> The "Pfund" (pound) is used in Germany only by very few old people
> nowadays, mostly in rural areas where civilization advances a
> little bit slower.  If you ask for a Pfund of something, you'll
> always get 500 g and often an irritated look.  Same applies for
> the "Zentner" (today: 50 kg, i.e. 100 Pfund).
> 

A "Zentner" may be 50 kg in Germany but it's 100 kg in Switzerland!
At least that's what I was taught in school...

Regards,

  Thomas

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