Does the "ton" still exist in London society?
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I guess I don't have a real answer but you mean debutantes and such? haha I hope that silly stuff isn't around anymore.
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I hear it spoken around Stamford Hill in London.\n\nMy dad speaks it fluently but not as a first language.
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1 ton [long, UK] = 1 016.046 908 8 kilogram\n\n1 ton [metric] = 1 000 kilogram\n\n1 ton [short, US] = 907.184 74 kilogram\n\nUse onlineconversion.com for just about anything.
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From what I just read it is the scottish parliament that has all the say so, any way it is a legislature body in the United Kingdom and overseas territories. Go to htt//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British Parliament, you'll find just what you want.  P.S. This is my ancestry to as far back as 1754 to the Lyon name.  Hope you find what you want to know. Good chat'in with ya!
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Actually, in middle english it was spelled Fourty.  The spelling has evolved over time, but it has been in recent history.
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There probably are chimney pots but they may be cleverly disguised as turrets or something equally 'gothic'. When the houses of parliament were built, it was a 'state of the art' building, despite its old fashioned appearance - built in a very fashionable style at the time.
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Hi notpoodle!\nI'm from Richmond South East London... think I lower the tone a bit, It's frightfully posh!!
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That depends if you think imperial measurements are better, I like metrication, and so no they did not have enough power, they took to long and faile to achieve there goal, I am still 6' and not 183cm people still think in LBS and not Kilos, and we still buy in pints well at  least in the Pub, if not at the supermarket.\nI wonder if it will change, but even my kids think in feet and inches and they have never been taught it?
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no there is not i lived inlondon for 5 years and i was looking for the same thing.know im in america SCU
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http://www.london.ca/Cityhall/CorpServices/CityClerks/Licences/lotterylic.htm#Who%20can%20get%20a%20licence%20to%20conduct%20a%20lottery%20event
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As a Londoner, I've put this on my watch list --- I can't wait to see what some damnfool person from over the water will make of your question ! ! ! (Sorry I can't shed any light on your question - for obvious reasons !)
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In the UK before 1971, there was a different monetary system in place, with three basic levels - pounds, shillings and pence.\nPence is another word for pennies, or single coins like 1 cent pieces.\nIn the old "Imperial" system, it worked like this:\n1/4 of a penny = farthing\n1/2 of a penny = half-penny (or ha'penny)\n1 penny = 1 "pence"\n3 pence - Threepenny piece (or Thruppenny Bit)\n6 pence - Sixpence\n12 pence = 1 shilling\n20 shillings = 1 pound \nMaking 240 pennies, or pence, to the pound.\n\nThere were other coins amounting to specific amounts within the system. The Florin, for instance, was worth two shillings (or 24 pence). The Half-Crown, just for fun, was worth two shillings and six pence (30 pence in total) and the Crown, understandably, was worth two Half-Crowns (equivalent to 5 shillings, or 70 pence). And finally the Guinea, which was worth one pound and one shilling (21 shillings, or 252 pence)\n\nIn 1971, the UK joined the metric system, based on there being 100 pence in every pound. The currency was also revalued, so that a shilling was now only worth 5 pence, rather than 12, so that there were still 20 shillings in a pound (largely to help people deal with the change when budgetting their weekly shopping!)\n\nAs far as I know the Crown and Half-Crown are no longer in active use - if you think about it, a half-crown, being worth two shillings and six pence, would now be a coin worth 16 pence, which is a little unweildy for shopping purposes. And similarly, the crown, being worth five shillings, would now be worth one pound twenty-five pence.\n\nSo now in the UK, we have the following units\n1p - one penny or one pence\n2p - two pence\n5p - five pence (one shilling)\n10p - ten pence (two shillings)\n20p - twenty pence (for some reason, calling this four shilings hasn't caught on)\n50p - fifty pence (ten shillings)\n£1 - one pound\n£2 - two pounds - the newest coin to be introduced. After this we go to notes, with £5 being the first.\n\nHowever, just to confuse matters even further, you'll still find mention of guineas and crowns in particular settings - several high-profile horse races award prizes in guineas and crowns. But for the majority of the population, they don't exist as actual coins any more. Incidentally, while researching this answer, I've discovered there was also a half-guinea and a five-guinea coin prior to decimalisation.
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Several sites agree that the number is stated differently in different publications.\n\nThe 25 you mention are the names inscribed in the Winchester Round Table. Other knights may have been at this table at various times, and were part of various Knight orders.
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This is a myth of almost Urban Legend type of status (except not enough people "care" about this myth to give it that type of status).\n\nIt has been proven, and you can even hear the proof yourself.
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There's an old email address available online for the society he co-founded.  Their website is offline, so it may not be functional:\n\nghuk@btinternet.com
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ACTUALLY - everyone above is wrong.  The roman Emperor Julias Libacious coined the term during his reign, when he reintroduced new types of coins into their monetary system.  The coins were a stupid shape, and were referred to as "libs", and when they started to write the term, they further shortened the term to "lbs".  Because the 'libs' were heavy, the phrase "you're worth your weight in gold" was changed to "you're worth your weigh in libs" and there you go.
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The paradigm has changed. In those days a city like Rome stood above others because most people, even within the Roman Empire, lived in primitive and uncivilised circumstances. Today civilisation is present most anywhere you look in the Western world, and elsewhere as well. \nEven among great cities, there is no longer one that stands out so clearly. How can one see New York, London, Paris or any other city as being singular? They and many others are all great centers of culture, commerce and temporal power.\nThe days when one city could be "the center of the world" are gone.