So, how big is a dram, anyway?

Subject: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Al
Date: 09 May 06 - 12:37 AM

Well?

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Bert
Date: 09 May 06 - 01:09 AM

Here

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: John O'L
Date: 09 May 06 - 01:13 AM

An eighth of an ounce?

Not the drams I pour.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 May 06 - 01:15 AM

Al, If you are asking about fluid measure, technically a DRAM equals 0.125 fluid ounces (US) or 0.13 fluid ounces (UK). In Scotland, a dram used to be a pub measure of spirits equal to a quarter of a gill or 1.25 fluid ounces (4 gills = 1 imperial pint of 20 fluid ounces. A pint (US) is 16 fluid ounces). Later it was a fifth of a gill, or 1 fluid ounce. It is probably equal to a SHOT in the US of a fluid ounce (US) of liquor.
But, in layman's terms, "Not much!"
But "Cheers" anyway!

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:04 AM

Is that a wee dram, or a large dram ? in my house all drams are large.

eric

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:02 AM

There are two measures for whisky in the highlands, there's the 'pub measure' which is so small as to be virtually invisible, and there's the 'house measure' which is a proper drink.
I always understood dram to be a corruption of the word drachm, this can be either a dry weight or a fluid measure. When I was at school our jotter, (a lined notebook in blue soft covers), had a lot of tables on the back outer cover. This included esoteric things like Troy weight and Drachms, along with Rods, Poles and Perches, which are linear measures.
Mustn't forget furlongs, as horse races are still run over multiples of this measurement.
Giok

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:35 AM

Dram is from the same root as tram, and means a whole busload of whusky.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: John O'L
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:46 AM

Ah, thanks Giok, for reminding me of school exersise books which explained rods, poles and perches. I'd forgotten all about them. Now I can safely forget them again for another 40 years.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 May 06 - 11:04 AM

'Give the fiddler a dram' surely can't mean an itty bitty amount.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 06 - 11:08 AM

all depends on whether you're a fiddler or the Shantyman.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 May 06 - 11:31 AM

Yes, there are official definitions, but in common use, a dram is about as big in drink as a snack would be in food.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 06 - 12:56 PM

July 31, 1970. Black Tot Day. A day that shall live in Infamy.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Megan L
Date: 09 May 06 - 01:22 PM

I mind on when ye hid a nip o whisky, the glass wis nae muckle bigger than a thumb thimble

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Kaleea
Date: 09 May 06 - 01:49 PM

how many cheerios in a dram?

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 06 - 01:56 PM

The British Navy no longer give a dram.

(Sorry, but not very.)

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:16 PM

Ah what a rum cove, remarks like that leave me groggy.
G..

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: GUEST,The black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 09 May 06 - 04:51 PM

I remember having to work out a conversion from drams to ounces when I was at school as I wanted to use an old formula from a 1910 Children's encyclodedia for Chemistry club.
It was for a "weather glass", which consisted of a whole lot of chemicals disolved in water in a very large test tube. The article gave all sorts of details about what you would see in about twenty different types of weather conditions.

It didn't work.

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 May 06 - 09:59 AM

ROFL

Subject: RE: So, how big is a dram, anyway?
From: Al
Date: 13 May 06 - 01:02 AM

What does ROFL mean?