I love the old English. I used to wallow in Georgette Heyer Regency Romance novels, and she used "fortnight" and "sennight". AND lots of Regency England slang!
@4meAndyou Someone told me that one evening, she and other science/engineering students were amusing themselves trying to come up with creative alternatives to metric versus imperial units. Their crowning achievement was to measure velocity in "furlongs per fortnight!"
