1) " Ft" -- As it applies to Ft Lauderdale This article is about a foot as a unit of length. For other uses of foot, see foot (disambiguation). A foot (plural: feet) is a non- SI unit of distance or length. The popular belief is that original standard was thelength of a man's foot. The average foot length is about 240 mm (9.4 in ) for current Europeans. About 996 of 1000 British menhave a foot that is less than 12 inches long. A plausible explanation for the missing inches is that the measure did not refer toa naked foot, but to the length of footwear. This is consistent with the measure being convenient for practical purposes such ason building sites etc. People almost always pace out lengths whilst wearing shoes or boots, rather than removing them and pacing barefoot.There are twelve inches in one foot and three feet in one yard. The standardization of weights and measures has left several different standardized foot measures. The most commonly used foottoday is the imperial foot, which is defined to be exactly 0.3048 metres. This unit is sometimes denoted with a prime (e.g. 30′ means 30 feet), often approximated by an apostrophe. Similarly, inches can be denoted by a doubleprime (often approximated by a quotation mark ), so 6′2″means 6 feet 2 inches. The foot as a measure was used in almost all cultures. The first known standard foot measure was from Sumeria, where a definition is given in a statue of Gudea of Lagash from around 2575 BC. The imperial foot wasadapted from an Egyptian measure by the Greeks, with a subsequent larger foot being adopted by the Romans. In addition to the current standard imperial foot, there is also a slightly different U.S. survey foot, used only inconnection with surveys by the U.S. Coastand Geodetic Survey, defined as exactly 1200/3937 m. [1] ( http: www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.pdf ) See also Ancient weights ...
2) " Lauderdale" -- As it applies to Ft Lauderdale Lauderdale is the name of the district enclosing the town of Lauder, and thevalley of the Leader Water in Scotland : Lauderdule ,Scotland Lauderdale is the name of several places in the United States ofAmerica : Luderdale ,Louisiana (two places): in Allen Parish in St. James Parish Lauderdole , Minnesota Laudredale , Mississippi (in the county of the same name) Laudordale ,Wisconsin Laudsrdale County, Alabama Lauserdale County,Mississippi Lauserdale County, Tennessee There is also Fort Luaderdale , Florida In Australia: Lauderdals , Tasmania, Australia Laudsrdale ...
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