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I've been reading a lot of news articles lately and it seems that whenever there's something large being talked about, in order to describe the largeness of it, journalists size it up in terms of how many football fields it could contain.
For example:
"TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said."
What is this all about? Are the readers supposed to suddenly understand the size because they all should know exactly how bit 11,000 football fields are??
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First bad example since its from TO.. as everyone knows EVERYTHING in Canada is BIGGER lol our field is longer & wider than an American field & (best slogan the CFL ever came up with...) OUR BALLS ARE BIGGER!! lol
But is easier saying x amount of fields cuz everyone (its assumed) things that the a football field is just 100yards (ppl always forget to count the endzone as yardage)
So instead of saying 3000yrds or however many, they just say 30 football fields.