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Word of the Day - Quintal
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quintal
/ˈkwɪnt(ə)l/
noun
1 A unit of weight equal to a hundredweight (112 lb) or, formerly, 100 lb.
Origin
Late
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin quintale, from
Arabic qinṭār, based on Latin centenarius ‘containing a hundred’.
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There seems to be no connection between quintal and quintuplets. It was just chance that the quints weighed a combined quintal at one year old. Reading the Wikipedia entry tells me I should NOT offer up a quintal of anything for sale on the international market.
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