Re: OT: we quaint Brits (was: those irregular prepositions)

As best I know - that's not SOOO counterfactual. I understood it refered to the
fact that a gallon of water weighs 8 pounds - hence, a pint weighs a pound.
That's the only context I've heard the phrase, anyway.

Aidan

Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> wrote: On 6/23/06, Paul Bennett
 wrote:
---SNIP---
>
> Rather amusing (to me) is the US saying "A pint's a pound, the whole world
> 'round", which is so counterfactual that it made me very nearly splutter
> with rage the first time I heard it.
>
I've lived in the US and Canada almost all my life. I've never heard
that saying. I have heard "A pound's a pound the whole world round",
presented as a British saying.  --larry



 		
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