"Gabby" > wrote in message
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> "Noises Off" > wrote in
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> >> 3) You may have heard the memory tool "pint's a pound the world around"
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> >> 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.
> >
> > The British do not have this rhyme. The British equivalent is "A pint of
> > water weighs a pound and a quarter".
> >
> > 1 imperial pint weighs 20 oz.
> > 1 imperial gallon (8 pints) weighs 10 lbs.
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> The American pint is 2 cups = 16 oz.
> The imperial pint is 4 gills (1 gill = 5 oz.) = 20 oz.
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> 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'.
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> "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?"
>

it did, once. But the ole orbit is slowing down, and its longer in the year
now.

> Gabby
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