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Posted By: GUEST,Sapper dropping b===ocks on NEM2
09-Apr-08 - 05:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
Subject: RE: BS: Slang for 40-ounce?
From Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 02:31 PM

Giok said,

40 fluid ounces is 2 pints, so it could be a 'Quart'

I don't know about the UK, but in the US 40 ounces would be one quart and eight ounces.   Sixteen ounces to the pint, two pints to the quart, equals thirty-two ounces to the quart.


You Yanks can't get anything right!