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Oct. 1st, 2002 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyi just thought this was interesting:
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/ruleofthumb.html
a woman's abuse website debates whether or no "The rule of thumb" refers to English common law (a man can beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb) or carpentry (until the establishment of a common system of measure, carpenters reportedly used the length of digits to measure distances)
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/ruleofthumb.html
a woman's abuse website debates whether or no "The rule of thumb" refers to English common law (a man can beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb) or carpentry (until the establishment of a common system of measure, carpenters reportedly used the length of digits to measure distances)
