CBC Radio One's Weekend Arts Magazine host Angela Antle received this message after quintal was introduced as the Word of the Week:
Hi Angela,
When I was going to school in St Pierre quintal was taught to us along with the metric system, the symbol was q ; the plural in French is "quintaux";
quintal from Arabic quintar (quintar)
in the metric system = 100 kg
no longer used except in Latin America where it is used in the commerce of cotton
Bonne journée
Jacqueline Park
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