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OT English System vs Imperial System of Measure
"Nad R" wrote in message
... "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Nad R" wrote in message As the old saying goes: "Two Countries divided by a common language" In the US we call it the "English System of Measurements". The UK calls it the "Imperial System". No it's not. An Imperial Pint has 20 fl ounces. I have traveled to Canada on occasion. Canada uses the Imperial Gallon as 4.5 liters. Where the US Gallon is 3.7 liters for gasoline containers. So can I assume we both learned something here? Well I would have thought that you'd already know about Imperial measures. I was very surprised to find that you didn't. You now know what the English System is now? Yep, but I certainly will never use such a term. It's what I've always called US measurements as they relate to Pints and Gallons. Other measures used by USians are Imperial but for some unknown reason they are not called that in the US. And that we both need to be conscious of the English vs Imperial differences? I always have been conscious of those differences and use my knowledge of those differences on a regualar basis. I am a keen cook so since sometime in the 1970s, I have always needed to know if I'm dealing with an old Imperial recipe or a US recipe (although I rarely cook any modern US recipes). In addition, the only manufacturers of measuring jugs with ounce measures notated on them these days are US manufacturers. Wwhenever I use one of my big measuring jugs that tries to tell me that a Pint only contains 16 ounces, I tell it that it's being parochial and I might possibly want to use the 20 ounce Pint. It never manages to see the error of it's way though and insists that 16 ounce Pint is the only option. In the US every day life people use the English System. In the Science Arena is the only area in the US that uses the Metric System in which I am also familure with. But as you stated you seem to use a mixed system, Celsius for temperature and inches for measurement. Is this common to mix it up in your part of the world? It's not a 'mix up' as I explained in an earlier post. It's two different systems used in parallell by older people who grew up under an earlier system and who had to learn to use a new system, but who have not yet died out leaving the only a younger generation who knows only the new system. Here in the US the two systems are separate, no mix. It is one or the other. Perhaps in the future I should use the term "Gallon:US" and others us "gallon:UK" That should be Imperial Gallon. The UK is only one place on the globe that uses that form of meaure. So in your part of the world, do you have Five Gallon Buckets? if so I wonder what the size difference is. When I see a US site that refers to 5 gallon buckets, I know exactly what size they are referring to - its a 20 litre bucket although you'd never want to put a full 20 litres of liquid into it. More common here for household use in the 9 litre bucket which would hold 10 litre is filled right to the brim but it would be ineffective to do so. |
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