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Old 05-09-2019, 06:50 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Not all measures are the same, US pint is significantly smaller than UK's, same with other fluid measures - not sure why - continental drift maybe ?
Fortunately for them they're switching over to metric. I hate imperial measurements.

The one that really made me roll my eyes is when I ordered from amazon a teapot and it was listed as 6 cups I think. When I got it I thought there's no way it could hold 6 cups. Further investigation revealed that for a teapot the "cup" is a teacup, which is 6 ounces, not 8.

Metric is so much easier because everything is just a number, and to make it easier 1000 milliliters of water (a liter) weighs 1000 grams, a 1-to-1 correspondence.
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