Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine
jobbies@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoWhat’s the wee apostrophe for? That means fuck all to me.
Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine
jobbies@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoWhat’s the wee apostrophe for? That means fuck all to me.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
It’s an old abbreviation for feet. A double quote is also an old abbreviation for inches.
It’s a shorthand I learned from my father who was an engineer back before my country converted to the metric system.