Originally Posted by
SpurMan
Both 25 & 50ml, and 35ml and 70ml measures are legal in the UK as a whole. A measure used to be 1/6 gill in England and 1/5 gill in most of the rest of the UK, and England got stiffed as most places went to 25ml, which is less than the 28.7ml in 1/6 gill.
While accepting we're wildly off topic here, given a UK Imperial pint is 568ml, and a gill is a quarter pint, and therefore 568 / 4 = 142ml, then 1/6 gill is surely 142/6 = ~ 2
3.7ml, i.e. the English sizes went
up surely?
It was the Scots, who traditionally served in either 1/5 gill ( ~28.4ml became 25ml) or 1/4 gill (35.5ml became 35ml) who got the smaller measures.