Talk:skock

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"An old unitless measure indicating sixty". What does "unitless" mean here? Is a unitless measure one where we would say "skock kvinnor" and not "en stock kvinnor"? Or perhaps unitless means that we can say "en stock kvinnor" but we can't say "två stock" or "tre stock"? 31.208.181.52 22:31, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

(I don't know Swedish, so I could be totally wrong.) My default interpretation would be that "unitless" refers to the concept of a dimensionless quantity, not to a grammatical feature. In this sense, measurements like a "dozen" or "score" can be considered unitless, whereas something like "a dozen hours" would not be. If that's what it was supposed to mean, it is pretty confusing and unnecessary though. 98.170.164.88 22:35, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply