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reddrgaon | 12:22 Thu 27th Apr 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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What is the rest of the rhyme 'a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter'
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I don't know about the rest of this rhyme, but the American variant (where they have 16 fluid ounces in a pint) is "A pint's a pound the whole world round".
There isn't.

This was one of a series of mnemonics invented as part of the UK's 'Going Metric' campaign in the early sixties.

The others were :

"A metre measures three feet three
It's longer than a yard, you see."

and

"Two and a quarter pounds of Jam
Weighs about a kilogram"

They clearly worked as mnemonics, as I can remember them forty years later!
Wasn't there one about a litre of water is two pints and a quarter? Or not?

"A litre of water's


A pint and three-quarters"


Worked for me, too! Though I had forgotten the metres one.


Thought I was getting short measures! Love the name Hammond Egg.

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