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Though no longer an official unit of measure – in Medical and other technical contexts kilograms are used – the stone remains almost universally popular for use in Britain and Ireland as a means of expressing human body weight. People in these countries would normally describe themselves as weighing, for example, "11 stone 4" (11 stone and 4 pounds). It was also frequently used in the past for weighing agricultural commodities. Potato es, for example, were traditionally sold in stones or half-stones (14-pound or 7-pound quantities). In the United States and Canada , where stone as a unit of weight is generally unknown, people would normally describe themselves as weighing "158 pounds" (using the same amount of weight as in the previous example). This usage of pounds alone to express body weight is very unusual in Britain and Ireland.
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