Re: CHAT: browsers

Tristan scripsit:

> If there's one US spelling I can't stand (and there is), it's 'liter'. I
> always read it as 'lighter'.
ObDialect: Pity the poor Ozzie in America.  Every time he asks for his coffee
at the end of the meal, it promptly comes back with more cream in it!

> Yeah, I am well aware of the fact that you can measure things in either
> litres or grams without regard to whether they're solid or liquid. I'm
> just wondering if fluid ounzes are used to measure fluids (by
> convention) or if it's just a name.
Mostly it's just a name for a certain volume, but it wouldn't be used for
anything that can't be densely packed, as I mentioned in my previous note.

ObLang: this word "gallon", which is the basic unit in Imperial and U.S.
Customary systems, is Norman French (did you ever hear galon/jalon there,
Christophe?), and probably of Celtic origin before that, or at least it
has no obvious Latin etymology.

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