Posted by Jon on February 09, 1999 at 19:20:55:
In Reply to: Ounces (was: seed cake) posted by Robert Hill on February 08, 1999 at 10:12:18:
And so dies the "A pint's a pound, the world around" myth. It would have been nice if our forebears hadn't gone in for overloaded operators in weights and measures (ounce weight, ounce fluid measure, ounce dry measure) though!