}Actually, what I think you found out is that there is one, and only one,
}surviving popular use of the word "fortnight" in the American on-line
}subculture. (Evidently the same goes for "furlong".)
I believe "furlong", like a number of other obscure measurements like
the pre-metric inch, survives in surveying and other things involving
land.
-- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com russotto@his.com "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."