Bill Hooper wrote in USMA 19854

>> 'the pint's a pound'  is not exactly so.
>It's not even close.


Quite so.

I think in your discussion you mixed American volume measures, which are
18th century, with imperial measures, which date from 1824.

Joseph B.Reid
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