6 Mar
2001
6 Mar
'01
11:02 a.m.
I just ran across this:
a speck is 1/4 of a saltspoon.
a saltspoon is 1/4 of a teaspoon
1 wine glass is 1/2 of a gill
two gills make a cup
And as you can see, we haven't even touched on firkins or hogsheads.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Actually, I
think they are all precisely defined in terms of scruples,
aren't they?
And to bring this boack on topic:
there are three SCRUPLES in a DRAM
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
Well Dick, I
guess you've never been asked to measure out a pinch
or a dab.
That's a tad more than a smidgin isn't it?