Is that going to be on the final?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Yuzyk" <jerome@supernet.ab.ca>
To: <Alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: British weight measures
> > Thus ends today's lesson in weights and measures.... is it time for
> > recess yet???
> >
> > Jon Arzt
> > Omaha, NE USA
>
> Well, the other responses prompted me to pull this out from a note I sent
> to my colleagues proposing a new engineering unit:
>
>
> the Buttload
>
> From The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (my 2-volume
> dead-tree version with the rectangular magnifier):
>
> Butt:
> A cask for wine or ale, of capacity varying from 108 to 140 gallons.
> Afterwards also as a measure of capacity = 2 hogsheads, i.e., in ale
> measure of 108 gallons, in wine measures 126 gallons.
>
>
> From http://cartalk.cars.com/Mail/Letters/1999/11.26/5.html
>
> See Webster's dictionary:
>
> "butt--a measure of liquid capacity equal to 126 gallons or two
> hogsheads"
>
> In another dictionary:
>
> an English butt is 2 hogshead of 54 imperial gallons each or ~129.7
> U.S. gallons (i.e., a U.K. butt is apparently slightly bigger than a
> U.S. one)
>
> a Spanish butt is based on a wine cask and is equivalent to 140 U.S.
> gallons or ~116.6 U.K. gallons (i.e., a Spanish butt is bigger still)
>
> So next time someone says they have a "buttload" of stuff, just
> remember, that is about two 55-gallon barrels' worth of stuff.
>
> 1 butt equals:
>
> 2 hogsheads (this is probably the easiest to remember for social
> occasions)
> 476.961 liters
> 126 gallons
> 104.917 U.K. gallons
> 13.5347 bushels
> 0.131592 cords
> 11.6574 firkins
> 4032 gills
> 21504 ponys
> 4032 noggins
> 1008 pints
> 96768 teaspoons
> 12.0308 ephahs
> 1.58987x10^7 drops
> 10752 jiggers
> 16128 shots
> 629.504 wine bottles
> 630 fifths
>
> One microbutt = 0.0968 teaspoons
>
>
> From http://home.earthlink.net/~terrafied/work/mbload.html
>
> metric buttload (n.),
>
> 1. 2.4710439 English buttlodes.
>
> 2. the capacity of the platinum-iridium International Standard butt,
> which is housed in Sevres, France, along with the platinum-iridium
> kilogram and the old bar with the scratches that used to be the
> standard meter.
>
>
> And a *load convertor:
>
> http://www.vgg.com/pt/pt_111600_calculator.html
>
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>
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