Re: [OT] Gill

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From: Bif Smith <bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Gill

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <devans@uneb.edu>
> To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:25 PM
> Subject: [OT] Gill
SNIP
> > The clincher was the indication, on the lower clear part, that it
measured
> > '1/6 Gill'. ;->=
> >
> > Back to your on-topic discussions, already in progress.
> >
> > The_Beast
> See if it`s a scotish or english. IIRC a scotish gill is 1/5 floz, and
a
> english 1/6. So you get more for the scots that the brits.
>
> BIF

'Fraid so- a gill is 1/4 of an Imperial pint.  English pubs dispense
whisky
etc in 1/6 gill measures, (unless they've gone over to 25ml) while
Scottish
pubs use 1/5 gill.  Formerly, and still in some McGlashanist holdouts,
the
Scottish pub measure was 1/4 gill, leading to the the traditional order
"a
hauf 'na hauf-pint" - a double whisky and a half pint of heavy (beer).
Ah,
it makes me pine for a white puddin supper.

Rob Paul