But you'm be forgettin' the 'country mile', you'm bein! 'Eee be quoit a few yards, 'ee be!! But we'm invented decimal units, 'cos 10 chains be 1 furlong, and 1 acre be 1 furlong by 1 chain or 10 square chains!! Oh arr...
..an' 'twas old St Atute who decided that 8 furlongs were quite enough fer 1 mile!!