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What is a "jard"


jrmax988 3 | 8  
14 Oct 2008 /  #1
I'm in the process of buying a piece of land with my polish wife and she keeps going on about "Jards". (sorry if the spelling is wrong) I thought she meant a yard, but when she was showing me this massive bit of land and telling me it was 50 jards, i was confussed. Can anyone clear this up in good old fashioned m2?
z_darius 14 | 3,965  
14 Oct 2008 /  #2
"Jards"

This looks like Polish spelling of "yard".
OP jrmax988 3 | 8  
14 Oct 2008 /  #3
Sorry my mistake, I'm going to have to lock her in the basement. Apparently its "AR"
z_darius 14 | 3,965  
14 Oct 2008 /  #4
"AR"

100 square meters
osiol 55 | 3,921  
14 Oct 2008 /  #5
There is an English word "are" (pronounced the same as air). One hundred of these is a hectare.

edited - I made a mathematical error.
benszymanski 8 | 465  
14 Oct 2008 /  #6
it is called an "are" in English:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are

but of course nobody has ever heard of it as we don't use ares in English speaking countries.
osiol 55 | 3,921  
14 Oct 2008 /  #7
We don't use ares, but we certainly use hectares in Britain. We're at least half-metric here.
I think it was Napoleon and his crowd who spread the word of the metric system, and look who had to be different!
z_darius 14 | 3,965  
14 Oct 2008 /  #8
we certainly use hectares in Britain. We're at least half-metric here.

hence an acre is roughly about half of a hectare ;)
OP jrmax988 3 | 8  
14 Oct 2008 /  #9
thank you all
nierozumiem 9 | 118  
15 Oct 2008 /  #10
Be aware that many Poles mistranslate "Ar" as "Acre". For example, someone may tell you that they bought 10 acres of land to build a house on, when in fact they mean 10 Are, or .25 acres.

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