Or just undefining the pint entirely, and allowing "pint" to be colloquial for 500 ml in the same way that "pound", "pfund", etc., is understood to be shorthand for 500 g, or "quarter", as my friend Barbara calls it, is understood to mean 125 g.
A law could be passed that specifies that if you ask for a "pint" in a pub, you will get at least 568 ml. That would work as "pint" would no longer have a formal definition. For milk, just sell it in 500 ml, 1 l, etc. bottles. The law could also say for milk that since 500 ml is less than the former "pint" (568 ml), the price for a 500 ml bottle will be 12% lower (568 x 0.88 = about 500) than the price of a pint (to start with, that is, the price at the time of discontinuing the pint bottle), in order; this will keep the BWMA from having a fit (or, at least no more of a fit than they will have anyway). Carleton From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Remek Kocz Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:19 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:52166] Re: Mendenhalling a pint of beer How about just redefining the British pint as 600 mL?
