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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days ago the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended Reply to wrong post? Pint is 1/8th of gallon and gallon came from old Norman French with latin roots.
minus-squareBNE@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoNah, just making fun of imperial. Car widths being the result of roads built by the Romans is historically charming, but that kind of thing is not the basis for a measurement system you should expect people to take seriously. It’s just a series of band-aids on band-aids.
Reply to wrong post? Pint is 1/8th of gallon and gallon came from old Norman French with latin roots.
Nah, just making fun of imperial.
Car widths being the result of roads built by the Romans is historically charming, but that kind of thing is not the basis for a measurement system you should expect people to take seriously. It’s just a series of band-aids on band-aids.