On May 15, 2007, at 5:59 AM, dhbailey wrote:
I learned the "pint's a pound the world round" also, but when I asked the person who told it to me if a pint of gasoline would weigh the same as a pint of mercury, he thought for a moment, said "Bah!" and walked away.
A pint is *by definition* the volume occupied by a pound of water. The proverb (in addition to being a good mnemonic for that fact) says in effect that certain things are true under all circumstances.
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