In the UK system, a gallon of water weighs ten pounds - logical
In the UK system, a gallon of water weighs ten pounds - logical
Yeah sure even yuo got it wrong.
It's a fluid pint not a pint.
One US fluid pint of water weighs about a pound (16 ounces), resulting in t he popular saying, "The pint's a pound, the world around." However, a US pi nt of water weighs 1.04375 pounds and the statement does not hold the world around because the imperial (UK) pint weighs 1.25 pounds.
so total shit.
1 litre weighing 1 KG sems easier to me.A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568 .26 cubic centimeters
They also have "cups"????
Are they different from the British cup, which is used as a cooking measure?
We redefined the measures after the USA declared independence. So, while we adopted Imperial measurements in 1826, they still use the Queen Anne gallon for wet goods and the William III gallon for dry goods.
In fact, it was a gallon of wine, rather than water, that was defined as weighing eight pounds, back in 1266. That was changed to a gallon equalling 231 cubic inches in 1707, which is the value the USA still uses.
US measuring cups hold 8 US fl oz. Typical US recipes will call for fractions of a cup, rather than ounces, and multiples of cups, rather than pints.
What gets me is that they call them "English units".
Andy
'They" being Americans? And 'them' being which units of measurement?
So do bras.
Which was another good reason to have things divisible easily and still have intergers for as long as possible.
I think that's why some get cm and mm confused because they are called slightly differnt things.
USA-ians refer to the US Gallon etc. as English Units.
Andy
Really? What part of the US does that? I've spent years in the US, my kids went to school there, and I've never heard an American refer to _US_ gallons as 'English Units'. I _have_ heard them refer to _Imperial_ gallons as English, though.
Interesting. I've heard it quite often.
Mostly I've been on the west coast.
Andy
That may explain it - west-coasters are weird. I've spent a lot of time on the east coast, where I have _never_ heard it, nor have my US-educated children.
I lived on the West Coast for 12 years and never heard it either. Mind you, that was 30 years ago.
IME not in Illinois, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Louisiana, Florida or Georgia.
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