Hairyears: a note on pronunciation

[hairyears]

"Hairyears! It's what Prince Charles says when he wins at hide-and-seek".

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[brrm]

Here hare, here.

[hairyears]

Hare, Hare, Hare?

Surely you're thinking of Bunny Prince Charlie?

[oedipamaas49]

To me, hairyears will always be a measure of distance. If a light year is how far light travels in a year, a hairyear is surely how far hair grows in a year -- i.e. a few inches.

[did I already mention this? several times? sorry, it's stuck in my head by now, & won't leave]

Tuft security

[hairyears]

Yes and no: there's the 'seasonal' hair year, a measure of the growth or gain in length. But there is also the epochal hair year, which measures the migration of hair as a man ages - a retreat from the forehead and a redeployment into dense defensive tufts att the ears and nostrils so as to prevent the entry and egress of woodlice.

[htfb]

I once worked with a trader who added to the ton, the monkey, the grand (or k), and so forth, the unit of the Prince Charles.

It represents twelve. "One doz.", does one not?