> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Liam Proven via > cctalk > Sent: 01 February 2021 19:15 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: APL\360 > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 20:00, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@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. :-( > > > > -- > Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 Dave G4UGM Still stresssed after talking about mail routing at a USA Microsoft Exchange Conference....
