How much weight did Alfie lose?

Factual Questions
1

In the movie Alfie (1966), there is a scene at a doctor’s office. The doctor asks Alfie to step onto the scale to be weighed. As he steps onto the scale he tells the doctor:

The doctor, as she reads the scale, then informs him that he now weighs 11Stone 9lbs.

So how much weight did Alfie lose? This will be simple subtraction for anyone who knows how many lbs are in a stone, but as I’ve never dealt in stones I have no idea.

Related questions:
Are these lbs equal to the lbs of my present day American experience?
Are “stones” still used in the present day U.K.?

2

British unit of weight equivalent to 14 pounds

3

Blimey! The bloke didn’t 'alf lose 11lbs, didn’t 'e?

(Sorry, I just watched the movie today, I’ll probably be talking like this for a week. :eek: )

4

I believe so.

Yes, almost exclusively to define personal weight. But the plural, in the vernacular at least, is “stone” not “stones”.

5

A pound is no different in the U.K. than in the U.S. A stone is 14 pounds. Alfie had lost 11 pounds if he went from 12 stone, 6 pound to 11 stone, 9 pound.

6

I thought that a pound in the UK was 100 pence, formerly 20 shillings. :smiley:

7

Ah, you’re mixing it up with the avoirdupois pound, named from the French “avoir du pois”, or “to have some peas”, which in turn derives from the common British abbreviation of “pence” to “pee”, e.g. 50 pence is written 50p and pronounced “fifty pee”.

:smiley: