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Re: longitude positive west?
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2008 Jun 14, 16:58 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2008 Jun 14, 16:58 +0100
Apologies; I made a silly boob in my earlier message, which should have read- Bill Noyce noted, Wandering a bit off topic: > I don't know what a �F, a yard, a pound is? I know what a pint is because > I > like beer :-), Careful ... around here, a pint is about 480 ml, but we don't usually serve beer in pints. In the UK, where they do, a pint is about 600 ml, I believe. (This is also relevant to a comparison of gas/petrol prices a while ago, where George (?) mentioned a gallon as being almost 5 liters. Here in the US it's just under 4 liters -- though our gas is still relatively inexpensive.) ========================== Bill would be a bit disappointed by "short measure", then, on visiting a British pub. An Imperial GALLON [I had written "Pint"!] is not 5 litres, but 4.546, though still quite a lot larger than a US gallon. An Imperial Pint is one-eightth (how DO you spell that word?) of a gallon, or 568 ml. Draught beer is now about the only stuff that's still sold in that way; everything else having now gone metric, by law, but the beer drinkers have held their ground so far. And mostly, it's still sold in glasses that hold a pint right up to the brim, which is one reason why we prefer our beer to be flat rather than fizzy. As Bill Noyce has mentioned fuel prices, Americans might like to know that Diesel for my car now costs me the equivalent of just over $10 for a (US) gallon. George. contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1502 - Release Date: 6/13/2008 7:25 PM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---