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  2. Pint - Wikipedia

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    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. A now-obsolete unit of measurement in Scotland, known as the Scottish pint, or joug, is equal to 1696 mL (2 pints 19.69 imp fl oz). It remained in use until the 19th century, surviving ...

  3. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    The system can be traced back to the measuring systems of the Hindus [18]: B-9 and the ancient Egyptians, who subdivided the hekat (about 4.8 litres) into parts of 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 4, 1 ⁄ 8, 1 ⁄ 16, 1 ⁄ 32, and 1 ⁄ 64 (1 ro, or mouthful, or about 14.5 ml), [19] and the hin similarly down to 1 ⁄ 32 (1 ro) using hieratic notation, [20] as ...

  4. Gill (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Prior to metrication, in the United Kingdom, the standard single measure of spirits in a pub was 1 ⁄ 6 gill (23.7 mL) in England and Northern Ireland, and either 15 gill (28.4 mL) or 1 ⁄ 4 gill (35.5 mL) in Scotland. After metrication, this was replaced by measures of either 25 or 35 millilitres (0.176 or 0.246 gi), at the discretion ...

  5. A Pint of Beer Costs the Most in These 15 Countries - AOL

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    We scoured the internet to get the cost of a pint in the most populated cities around the world. A Pint of Beer Costs the Most in These 15 Countries Skip to main content

  6. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Where these systems most notably differ is in their units of volume. A US fluid ounce (fl oz), about 29.6 millilitres (ml), is slightly larger than the imperial fluid ounce (about 28.4 ml). However, as there are 16 US fl oz to a US pint and 20 imp fl oz per imperial

  7. Cost of a pint rises at four times the rate of inflation - AOL

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    The cost of a pint has risen 6% in 12 months, while inflation has gone up by 1.5%.

  8. Cup (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...

  9. Cost of pint to rise 20p after Reeves tax hikes, pub ... - AOL

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    Brewer Young’s will lift its prices by 3.5 per cent following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plan to increase tax on businesses. The move will add about 20 pence to the price of a London pint ...