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You gained pounds (lemmy.world)
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[-] mahomz@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

You're right, but also stones are mostly used as an approximate unit of bodyweight in casual conversation, so people would usually say "I'm about 10 and a half stone".

If you're dealing with bodyweight where accuracy matters, like in a medical sense, it's metric anyway. Plenty of people here aren't even sure of how many pounds make up a stone, despite regularly using the latter as a measurement.

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