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In Mexico, eggs are sold by the kilo, even when purchased in a flat of 2 1/2 dozen. If you bought them on a farm, it would be so many centavos/pesos(depending on the state of the peso) per egg, but still based on the kilo amount. Most farms I visited didn't have a scale to weigh them.
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Huh? Who does use stone as a measure of 20?Never heard of using stones for twenty. Of all the gall! I still think of my weight in stones, 14 to the poundFunny. In my part of Zild, we always had 14 pounds to the stone, but then who am I to argue?  the last legacy of my being part of NZ's transitional generation, like maverick, straddling the change from imperial to metric.Does straddling the change hurt? I've heard it's murder on the haemorrhoids ...  I have never heard of stone being used to mean twenty before.But, then, you repeat yourself. So do I. Frequently. Me too.
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In UK eggs are still sold in 6s and 12s. In Switzerland in 6s and 10s.
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Imperial and Metric, and the perils of confusing the two… it can cause more than irritating pileups, CK! Canada had another famous "dead stick" landing, in 1983, when an Air Canada plane ran out of fuel because refuelers had confused metric and imperial measures when loading the plane. The pilot, who had extensive glider experience, landed the Boeing 767 on a disused airfield used for auto racing and go-kart derbies in Gimli, Manitoba. That plane has become known as the Gimli Glider.http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/10/international/americas/10PLAN.html?todaysheadlines
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So if you don't buy eggs by the dozen, Bingley, you must go to the store for a half-score of eggs? While we're on the topic of eggs, what really bothered me when I went to Korea (where they're sold by the dozen, BTW) was that they weren't refrigerated. Ew. 
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