It has died out, I suppose, because we no longer need that sort of measure - it is a matter of how many miles we do in an hour rather than hours to complete a mile!

But metric measurements are based on an estimate of the world's circumference made in the 1790s! What sort of basis is that, I ask you!


Ah, yes--change: further evidence that (linear) time has passed! [naughtily cross-threading e]