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Nitpick: regular kind? That's quite… culture centric. The only "regular" capacity unit that I know of comes from a deliberate attempt to normalize every units.
by loup-vaillant 13y ago
Nitpick: regular kind? That's quite… culture centric.
The only "regular" capacity unit that I know of comes from a deliberate attempt to normalize every units. Namely, the Litre from the metric system.
Smug Frenchman
- mikeash 13y agoIt's not my fault that one of the units is just the name of the other unit with a modifier. It's not like "gallon" is shorthand for something longer and more formal.
- chockablock 13y agoHint: when an Englishman walks into a pub, he doesn't order an 'imperial pint' of beer...
- btbuilder 13y agoimperial gallon & US gallon? Or maybe more interesting but historical "ale gallon" and "wine gallon".