I'm fairly sure that I've read some articles by this guy on *Forbes* before, because I remember that he had some article on something, many years back, that I really liked and I distinctly remember thinking that his thumbnail looked kind of frumpy. I believe that he's British. Looks like he hasn't been at *Forbes* in almost a decade, though.
*kagis*
Yeah, was apparently born in Torquay, England.
https://www.timworstall.com/2008/07/about-tim-worstall/
> I was born in Torquay in 1963, grew up mostly in Bath (with a couple of years in Naples, Italy as a result of my father\’s Naval career) and was educated at Downside Abbey.
EDIT: Also, a "ton" and a "tonne" aren't the same thing -- that's not just dialect. A "ton" here in the US means a short ton, 2000 US lbs. A "tonne" is a metric ton, 1000 kg. I don't know what Brits normally mean if they write "ton", whether it's a short ton or a long ton. In the US, we'd normally write "metric ton" instead of "tonne".
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