I'm satisfied that I've proved you wrong on numerous occasions under your different post names. For whatever reason you won't accept any information on how it is in the UK unless whoever is saying it matches what you want them to say. Clearly it's not worthwhile for me to keep telling you. For the uses I've mentioned below the usage of the units involved are commonplace. Sorry if this upsets you. Hardly dead!
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:26:55 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [USMA:43369] Re: USC units spread to the UK - and no-one notices! To: [email protected]; [email protected] I already said that the pint was used (imply legal) in limited applications. The others units are not used in the purchase of products.. You don't purchase fluid ounces in recipes. The products you purchase to go in the recipes are in metric units and sold by metric units. The same for baby drinks. Soft drinks in the pubs are obviously sold in what ever glass size is available but purchased from the supplier in liters. You buy your fuel by the liter and since the calculation to mpg is too difficult it is rarely done even if lip service to mpg is paid from time to time in limited circles. But for all practical purposes the imperial volume units are dead as the perverbial door nail. Jerry From: Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2009 6:48:48 PM Subject: [USMA:43369] Re: USC units spread to the UK - and no-one notices! Except for pints of milk, beer and pints used descriptively. Fl Oz in recipes, baby drink preps gallons 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? Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. Try it Now! _________________________________________________________________ Free photo editing software from Windows Live . Try it now! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665240/direct/01/
