
Audrina Patridge on vacation in Tahiti.
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein
The word “ton” is derived from the French “tonnerre,” or “thunder,”
from the sound wine barrels made when rolled. But there are various
standards of a ton. You get a long ton, a short ton and metric ton. A US
ton, the short ton, is equivalent to 2000 pounds (907.185 kilograms). A
British ton, the long ton or gross ton, is 2240 pounds (1016.047
kilograms) because there are 112 pounds in their hundredweight.