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		bombcar on Dec 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If PHP Were British (2011) We need more uses of long and short - a kilometer is a short mile, a kilogram is a long pound, etc.

dllthomas on Dec 4, 2022 [–]

Maybe? It's a little different in that with the numbers it actually disambiguates.

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