Jim Sabatke wrote:
Kevanf1 wrote:
On 29/04/06, Doug McGarrett
wrote: On Saturday April 29 2006 08:35, James Knott wrote:
It's amazing that Americans are still so backward as to stick with the Imperial measures.
We don't. The imperial gallon is 5 quarts. The US gallon is 4 quarts. Canadians, I believe, use the imperial gallon, or used to.
Now I'm confused. A quart is two pints, yes? 8 pints equal a gallon the same as 4 quarts. All these are indeed Imperial measures or they are here in the UK.
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I believe that it goes back to King George the Mad. He couldn't raise taxes in the colonies, but he could change the size of a pint, which I believe, IIRC, went from 20 oz. to 16 oz.
IIRC, the larger Imperial measures came after the revolution, so Britain changed and the U.S. didn't.