Mitta vs Matta - What's the difference?
mitta | matta |
an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels. Also mett.
* 1866 : Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
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