On 5/3/2010 9:08 PM, Gabby wrote:
> On May 3, 9:54 pm, > wrote:
>
>> In some ways, the US system is NOT the imperial system. For example,
>> liquid measurements are different.
>
> It never made sense to me as a kid in school:
> 8 ounces = 1 cup
> 2 cups = 1 pint
> 2 pints = 1 quart
> 4 quarts = 1 gallon
> but the Canadian gallon is 160 ounces, not 138 ounces.

An American gallon is 128 fluid ounces, not 138.
>
> "Miss, why is the American gallon smaller?? Are their cups smaller?
> Are their ounces smaller? Why?????" No teacher could tell me, it
> just was what it was.
>
> Imagine my joy when, some 40 years later, I discovered the gill.
>
> LOL

You can blame Imperial measurements, which Canada used to use the last
time I was there (1958,on some bureaucrat back in the days of the
British Empire. All of their conquered territory used many different
measures and the Imperial measurement was the governments way of
standardizing. Sort of like pounds, guineas, crowns, shillings, etc.