'tonne' pronounced 'tun'--and we've talked a little about this.

Faldage recently observed to me that a ton was only 40 bags of 50-pound dogfood, or something like that, when I looked at the small amount of gravel my uncle had left in the lane--two tons, in fact, not one. It just didn't look like very much gravel. But 80 bags of 50-pound dogfood really wouldn't have been very much...gravel, if you follow my thinking.