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It seems to me that it would be best if fewer replies to long E-mail
messages included a copy of the entire message.

I don't know the origin of the s for displacement, but I have heard that
he p for momentum was for pimento. When they were first stuffed in
cocktail olives apparently people squirted them from the olives.

As for the distinction between the the pound and the kilogram, the weight
in pounds that is printed on meat an butter that you buy is defined as a
specific fraction of a kilogram, so it is actually a mass unit in that
context.


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