Except for pints of milk, beer and pints used descriptively.Fl Oz in recipes, baby drink prepsgallons in miles per gallon.Fl Oz for soft drinks at the pub We don't tend to use quarts though -maybe that's where you're entire argument rests.
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:41:05 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:43367] Re: USC units spread to the UK - and no-one notices! To: [email protected] My guess is that it is provided for the American tourists. Most Americans don't know a British version exists and those who are British don't need imperial conversions as they are already fully conversant in metric. As you already know British volume measures (except for the pint in limited applications) are dead. Jerry From: Ken Cooper <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2009 5:39:35 PM Subject: [USMA:43336] USC units spread to the UK - and no-one notices! One of my local hotels hands out small diaries as new year gifts to customers/visitors etc. I note that this year's version has a section entitled "conversions" underneath the time-zones map. I was intrigued to note that it had different sections for dry & for liquid measure, and that the liquid measure gave conversions for fluid ounce, quart & gallon - but not for pint. On closer examination, I found that the fluid ounce was defined as 29 and a bit millilitres, the quart as ~946ml & the gallon as ~3.79 litres.. Now, as everyone knows, these figures would be correct in USC, but are all incorrect in UK imperial. I'll lay odds that practically no-one actually noticed though. Can I suggest that this shows the irrelevancy of imperial liquid measure in the UK? People recognise an imperial pint in the pub, but appear to be unable to relate it to the smaller (fl. oz.) & larger (gallon) measures in the system. What point is there in perpetuating a system where the majority of people don't understand it any more? _________________________________________________________________ 25GB of FREE Online Storage – Find out more http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665320/direct/01/
