A bovenizer is a unit of measurement used by the majority of irish
people worldwide, although when asked about it by a non-Irish person (a stadín), they will most often deny its existence.
The word bovenizer stems from a figure in
Irish Myths and legend: Fálor Bovenizer. Fálor was a giant of a
man who travelled with the great Irish hero : An
mac tira. On one of their travels they came upon a large tear in the earths suface.
Bovenizer stretcheed across the span and allowed An
mac tira's company to cross by walking along his back. The width of the span became a mesurement used by the people of Ireland.
Jim: "reckon you could make that
jump?"
Dyl: "I dunno, it looks about one and a half bovenizers, thats kinda
big"
Tour guide: Grafton street is over two hundred imperial bovenizers
long