On Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 4:14:32 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-12-12 8:42 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> >
> >>> I've never heard the term 26er. I gather the term "fifth" is a
> >>> pretty archaic term but it used to refer to a standard bottle size when
> >>> it comes to buying whiskey, rum, vodka, etc.
> >> It is a fifth of a gallon.
> > It's so strange that someone would want to divide a gallon into 5 parts. I think that dividing a gallon into 2, 4, or 8, parts is much more sensible.
> >
> That's not very strange compared to some of our other archaic
> measurements, like 12 inches in a foot, 16 ounces in a pound, a
> temperature scale where water freezes at 32 and boils at 212.
The Americans never asked to be saddled with Imperial measurements. It's the Brits fault!