The fascinating world of measuring volume

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Simon" <simon.branford at h...> wrote:
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> (note I am working in UK pints - can't remember if US pints are the 
> same).
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According to Appendix 5 in the 1967 'Oxford Advanced Learner's 
Dictionary of Current English' (I am greatly disappointed that they 
now apparently have shortened the title to 'Oxford Learner's 
Dictionary'):

4 gills  = 1 pint (GB)   = 1.201 pints (US)   = 0.5679 litres
2 pints  = 1 quart (GB)  = 1.201 quarts (US)  = 1.1359 litres
4 quarts = 1 gallon (GB) = 1.201 gallons (US) = 4.5435 litres

UK dry gallons are similar to UK liquid gallons

Meaning 
US pint   = 0.4729 litres
US quart  = 0.9458 litres
US gallon = 3.7831 litres

US dry gallon = 4.404 litres

GB and US pharmacists gallon = 4.546 litres

In Norway, gas runs at ca. £4 (USD 6)/UK lq gallon (ca. USD 4.75 
(£3.20)/US lq gallon)

EU-rules mean that all goods in Britain must be sold in metric 
measure, meaning that pubs no longer can sell pints (though some may 
retribute by selling 0.8804 pint?).

The appendices of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current 
English is a fascinating source of more or less useful information 
(such as there being four types of ton:  regular, long, short and 
metric).

Having now bored you all to death, I shall remain quiet for a while.