APL\360

[dave.g4ugm at gmail.com]

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> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Liam Proven via
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> Sent: 01 February 2021 19:15
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> Subject: Re: APL\360
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> On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 20:00, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I had always been told, "A pint is a pound, the world around."
> 
> Aha! Does that mean a pint of water weighs 1lb?
> 
> Interesting. I did not know.

Typical American statement, where "world" means "United States". Its only a pound in the USA. In the UK it’s 1.25 lbs and even in Canada, before metrication, it was 20floz same as UK.
In many metric countries the old word for a pound, so in German for example "pfund" informally refers to 500 grams, a little more than an American pint and rather less than UK pint...
It gets worse because I understand that in the Caribbean (which as an English man I pronounce differently to the rest of the world) you will find both size pint in use ....

> 
> > I had already assumed that pub prices had inflated to higher than a pound.
> 
> It was under £1 for ½litre of beer when I got here. In fact it was under US$1/
> US 1pt. Now it's a bit more.
> 
> Cheapest I had was CzK 17 for half a litre. At the time that was about 50¢.
> 
> > Such worries call for having a few pints.
> 
> It is one of the things I miss most in lockdown. And there's no electricity
> supply in my man-cave/basement so I can't even go down there and play
> with my old computers. :-(
> 
> 
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Dave
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