I’m pretty sure when written out in one long string using 50 point font that it stretches exactly 9 yards.
Hence the phrase “the whole nine yards.”
No, no, no, the whole nine yards comes from George Washington.
You see long ago, little Georgie wanted to make some money. So his mother suggested that he cut the neighbors grass. The one condition his mother had was George had to cut their grass as one of his chores. So little Georgie decided to do so and he set up deals with all his neighbors. George worked hard and would cut each of the lawns. It just so happened that they lived in a sub-division that including their house had nine homes. So, when George would come in his mom would ask how many lawns he had cut and he would give her a report, by the end of the week he had cut them all so he would report that he had cut “the whole nine yards”. This meant that he had not only done his neighbors but their own yard as well. He continued to do this all summer and the expression stuck in his family as a sign of completeness or completion. As he grew in importance he continued using this phrase, but only using “the whole nine yards”. As he became president, this caught on and has continued to this day.
That is the honest I cannot tell a lie little Georgie truth.
Jeffery