12 eggs = dozen /// 18 eggs = ???

[Rozzie]

A score minus two...
Or four score minus sixty-two....

 

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[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]When I sat down to create the announcement of my price change, I decided I’d look for a word like ‘dozen’ to indicate 18. I found that there are a lot of egg sellers with this dilemma, too. I went to this site and looked all over. As yet I have found only one term that might work. I was wondering if you have found an answer, or can reason a suitable term we can put into use? I would say that more than half my customers prefer to buy 18. I do not like using ‘an 18’ or ‘18-count.’

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/index.htm
This site has a lot of old-world terminology that is pretty cool. I was looking for something like a ‘peck’ or a ‘score.’ So far, the closest I can come is a 'cubit,' which is an ancient egyptian measure of 18 inches, the length from one's elbow to fingertip - (Noah's Ark was apparently 300 cubits), but I have not done the obvious thing of laying out 18 eggs to see how long they would be. 'Cubit' is also somewhat convenient in that it has five letters, like 'dozen,' so for advertising you can use the same 'print real estate.'[/FONT]