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English weights are measures are very difficult to (1) foreigner. For general use the smallest weight is 1 ounce and there (2) 16 ounces in a pound. The English buy (3), tobacco and sometimes cigarettes by the ounce while most ) or fruit, such as apples (5), strawberries, by the pound, half-pound or quare Jound. Foi teen pounds (6) 1 stone. The English always give people's weight in stones and pounds. For example, a man (7) 11 stones 9lbs 112 lbs make up 1 hundredweight and (8) are 20 hundredweights in a ton. Liquids are (9) in pints, quarts and gallons. There are 2 pints in a quart and 4 (10). Finally, for length the principal (11) are inches, feet, yards and miles. The easiest way to remember them, perhaps, is a little (12) like this: 12 inches - 1 foot, 3 feet - 1 yard.