Pints in a quart
On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. For the glass in which beer is served, see Pint glass. United Pints in a quart and Ireland and to a limited extent in Commonwealth nations.
British imperial pint once used throughout the British Empire. Since the majority of countries in the world no longer use American or British imperial units, and most are non-English speaking, a “pint of beer” served in a tavern outside the United Kingdom and the United States may be measured by other standards. The imperial pint is equal to one eighth of an imperial gallon. In the United States, the liquid pint is legally defined as one eighth of a liquid gallon of precisely 231 cubic inches.
In the United States, the dry pint is one sixty-fourth of a bushel. Used in the UK and Ireland. Based on the imperial pint rounded to a metric value. The United States dry pint is equal to one eighth of a United States dry gallon. It is used in the United States, but is not as common as the liquid pint. It remained in use until the 19th century, surviving significantly longer than most of the old Scottish measurements.
The word pint is one of numerous false friends between English and French. They are not the same unit although they have the same linguistic origin. French as one quarter of a gallon. Some West- and East-Flemish dialects use it as a word for beaker.
Australians from other states often contest the size of their beers in Adelaide. One US liquid pint of water weighs 1. A pint’s a pound, the world around”. However, the statement does not hold around the world because the British imperial pint, which was also the standard measure in Australia, India, Malaya, New Zealand, South Africa and other former British colonies, weighs 1.
The pint is traditionally one eighth of a gallon. Because of the variety of definitions of a gallon, there have been equally many versions of the pint. Winchester” bushel of corn, or 268. The various Canadian provinces continued to use the Queen Anne Winchester wine gallon as a basis for their pint until 1873, well after Britain adopted the imperial system in 1824. This made the Canadian pint compatible with the American pint, but after 1824 it was incompatible with the British pint.
Europe, with values varying between countries from less than half a litre to over one litre. Within continental Europe, these pints were replaced with liquid measures based on the metric system during the 19th century. Pints are commonly used for the sale of milk in the United Kingdom. The label gives both the metric and the imperial volume. In the British and Irish metrication processes, the pint was replaced by metric units as the legally defined primary unit of measure for trading by volume or capacity, except for the sale of draught beer and cider, and milk in returnable containers. In Australia and New Zealand, a subtle change was made to 1 pint milk bottles during the conversion from imperial to metric in the 1970s. The height and diameter of the milk bottle remained unchanged, so that existing equipment for handling and storing the bottles was unaffected, but the shape was adjusted to increase the capacity from 568 mL to 600 mL—a conveniently rounded metric measure.
Such milk bottles are no longer officially referred to as pints. After metrication in Canada, milk and other liquids in pre-packaged containers came in metric sizes so conversion issues could no longer arise. A 375 mL bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is sometimes referred to as a “pint” and a 200 mL bottle is called a “half-pint”, harking back to the days when liquor came in US pints, fifths, quarts, and half-gallons. Liquor in the US has been sold in metric-sized bottles since 1980 although beer is still sold in US traditional units. BS 350:Part 1:1974 Conversion factors and tables – Part 1.
Editorial: Units: SI only, or multi-cultural diversity? Métrologie universelle, ancienne et moderne: ou rapport des poids et mesures des empires, royaumes, duchés et principautés des quatre parties du monde. The site Measurement Canada contains a wealth of documentation on official Canadian measurements. The French language version of the site is Mesures Canada. Getting to the bottom of the pint: the bitter problem of Adelaide’s beer glasses”. A Pint’s a Pound the World Around”. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
