Please don't say "everywhere" when you mean in the States... In German
too, a "Pfund" (same word as pound) is 500 g, and in French "une livre"
(= a pound) is 500 g again. Dutch people are not the only ones who use
the metrical system !
I know that this remains "completely off topic".
Marc H.
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You are right; it was a typo; I should have said pint. American pints
are 16 fl. oz. while Engliah ones ar 20. Sorry for any confusion. I
learnt this from someone who had been in the US Navy and had been
taught "a pint's a pound the world around" (a pound being 16 ounces in
anybody's money, except in The Netherlands where a "pund" is 500
grams). He was quite upset to learn that this was wrong.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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