For some reason, I would like to know how to tell someone my weight in stones. I know I weigh 16.78 stone, my question is how would I commonly express this. I can think of four options:
16 stone
17 stone
16 and three-quarters stone
16 point eight stone
My completely uneducated guess is that I would just tell people “17 stone” and own up to the few pounds I’m shy. I’m male, if that makes a difference at all.
Thanks
A weight of 16.78 stone would have been expressed here (in pre-metric times) as “16 stone 11 lbs”(approx).
NB 1 stone = 14 lbs
Further to what Cunctator said, they probably wouldn’t even bother with the word ‘pounds’ if it was verbal. It’d be “I’m sixteen stone eleven”.
This practice was common to most Imperial measurements where the smaller unit would be given as a number only: “I’m six foot six”. In currency, they’d often drop both units and say, “That costs three and six”.
You’d never have used a decimalised version. You might say “Sixteen stone, eleven and a half”.
OK, that makes perfect sense. Like if someone asked my height I’d say “six-three” and they’d have no problem parsing the units. Thanks very much, qusetion answered.
Or question, as the case may be.