If the word pint is used in metric countries it is another word for 500 mL.
Those who claim that the Imperial or US pint is used in continental Europe
are fools! They are the same kinds of idiots who thought we were 40 miles
from Breda when they saw a sign 'Breda 40' in Belgium last year! BWMA fools!
The Anglo-Saxon pints are illegal, of course. I do not know whether 'Irish'
or 'English' pubs have exemptions; I hope they have not.
I saw Irish people in my country who went to a Dutch pub for a pint; what
they meant, was not some Imperial unit but any glass of beer they could get.
Beer glasses in the Netherlands are either 250 or 330 mL. Usually we do not
use the word pint; when it crops up is is a word for a large glass, just
like 'akker' means any field for growing crops. A campaign to get people to
drink milk in the sixties used the figure of George Driepinter
(threepinter); the pint evidently had the meaning I gave above, not a
measuring unit.
Only the BWMA, if it had existed in that period and knew about it, would
have turned this into an Imperial victory in The Netherlands.
Some time ago I saw the word 'pint' used by an American ice cream company. I
looked to find the content of such a pint. If it had been 473 mL I would
have sent an e-mail to the W&M department. However, it means 500 mL.
Han
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Subject: [USMA:9868] Re: Beer measures
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:59:40 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >"Un demi" effectively means - theoretically - half a liter. In the
practice, "un demi" stands for a glass of beer (don't you say "draught beer"
?), not a beer in a bottle. Whatever the real quantity is, from 250 to 500
ml.
> >"Une pinte" is a term only used by young people. Not a slang word, just a
familiar word, meaning "une bière", whatever the container (glass or bottle)
and the quantity (250 to 500 ml) are.
> >
> >I don't think the matter deserves an argument...
> >
> >To my knowledge, there a no regulations about that. What is compulsory is
to post somewhere in the "bistrot" the price of the various drinks
specifying the exact volume served (in cl or ml).
> >
> Louis:
>
> Thanks you very much for the information. It seems that the newsgroup
poster was partly right. You may be right in saying it's not worth the
argument, but it's disappointing that the term 'pinte' has been
adapted by young people. Presumably it's another of these examples of
English terms being seen as 'cool'.
>
> The ng poster didn't seem too sure what his point was. He seemed to be
saying that a 'pint' was a convenient size, so even metric countries use it.
On the other hand, he seemed to be saying that the fact that
these names are used was some argument against metric. I loce the way that
people clutch at straws, and use trivial examples to try to make metric look
bad!
>
> Chris
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