dag - gram
Over the years, I’ve done a lot of recipes and restaurant menus, which is cool because a), I always enjoy reading about food and learning new recipes (I love to cook almost as much as I love to eat!), and b), such translations tend to touch on a variety of languages all in one go (Italian, French etc). In all that time, one thing that I’ve often seen and that makes my teeth itch whenever I see it, is dag , and the bastardised plural form, dags . To me, Dags is a made-up sweet form of Dagmara. I have neighbours and colleagues called Dagmara, and I call ‘em Dags. It’s also a mis-spelling of dogs, or a literal spelling of that word in various Irish dialects. One thing it’s not though, is a unit of measurement for English speakers. Professor Wiktoria Pedia tells us that a dag is the “symbol for decagram, a unit of mass equal to ten grams.” In other words, 1 dag (common Polish term) equals 1 decagram (common English term), which equals 10 grams . Note that in Brit...