Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, and it's TWENTY OUNCE pints over your way,
> not our measly little 16 oz. pints that we have
>_here in Canada and the US.
How did that happen? There's a proverb, which I have
always assumed was very old, that says "A pint's a
pound the world round." For this to be true, a pint
must be 16 oz. everywhere. So what's the deal here?
--Or is the 20-oz. pt. like a baker's dozen?
The UK pint used to be 1/8 of the Imperial gallon, which was defined by
Parliament in 1824 to be 10 pounds of distilled water at 62 degrees F. It is
now defined as 568.26125 ml.
Other pints (not exhaustive):
US wet 473 ml.
US dry 551 ml.
"Pint" liquor bottle in some Canadian and US maritime provinces/states 375 ml.
Australian and NZ pint beer glass 570 ml., except in S Australia, 425 ml.
Barrels of ale and beer are the same (36 gallons) nowadays, but barrels
of oil are 35 gallons (according to the Chambers Dictionary).
--
Ken Moore
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