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azazel1024 · 02-21-2012, 10:24 AM

I pretty rarely need to do look-ups (boasting of my amazing vocab skills), but I do occasionally do it for more technical terms when I don't trust my memory 100% for the exact unit of measurement since I don't regularly use the unit of measurement or isn't regularly used. Such as a furlong, league or a fathom.

I like being precise, so I don't like "well, I know about how long/far that is".

So far, no issues even with more obscure units (when was the last time you used furlong in a conversation?).

The only look-up it wasn't able to find so far was "an iron crow"...which the context should have told me what it was, but I had to look it up anyway (old name for a crow bar, as reference it was used in Robinson Crusoe).

02-21-2012, 10:24 AM	#16
azazel1024 Groupie Posts: 182 Karma: 346596 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ellicott City, MD Device: Nook simple touch, iPad 2	I pretty rarely need to do look-ups (boasting of my amazing vocab skills), but I do occasionally do it for more technical terms when I don't trust my memory 100% for the exact unit of measurement since I don't regularly use the unit of measurement or isn't regularly used. Such as a furlong, league or a fathom. I like being precise, so I don't like "well, I know about how long/far that is". So far, no issues even with more obscure units (when was the last time you used furlong in a conversation?). The only look-up it wasn't able to find so far was "an iron crow"...which the context should have told me what it was, but I had to look it up anyway (old name for a crow bar, as reference it was used in Robinson Crusoe).