"Noises Off" > wrote in message
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>> 3) You may have heard the memory tool "pint's a pound the world around" .
>> For water:
>> 1 measured cup water = 8 fluid ounces = avoir. 8 ounces =16 tablespoons.
>> And there are 16 cups and 8 pints and about 8 lbs of water per gallon.
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> The British do not have this rhyme. The British equivalent is "A pint of
> water weighs a pound and a quarter".
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> 1 imperial pint weighs 20 oz.
> 1 imperial gallon (8 pints) weighs 10 lbs.

The American pint is 2 cups = 16 oz.
The imperial pint is 4 gills (1 gill = 5 oz.) = 20 oz.

Talk about confusing to a Canadian kid who learned that
8 oz = 1 cup
2 cup = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart
4 quarts = 1 gallon -- but, children, our gallon is bigger than the
Americans'.

"Explain please? Is their ounce smaller? Our cup bigger? Why is our
gallon bigger?"
Never got an answer.

But then again I never got an answer when I asked "If a year has 52 weeks
and a week has 7 days, why doesn't a year have 364 days?"

Gabby