That’s funny. It’s definitely an actively used term in the U.K. though I can imagine people not knowing it. Outside of heavy industry I’d associate it with cent

That’s funny. It’s definitely an actively used term in the U.K. though I can imagine people not knowing it. Outside of heavy industry I’d associate it with centuries-old flour mills. I’ve found that often when my fellow Brits complain of a word being American it’s actually just an old English word we stopped using.