Pint

The pint ( or the pint, pint la compare French ) is an old unit of volume for both fluids as well - particularly in the Anglo- Saxon countries - for dry measurements. A pint in the U.S. is roughly equivalent to 0.4732 liters, a pint in the UK about 0.5683 liters.

It is similar to the old systems of units, mostly - for example hergebrachterweise in France and to date in Canada - two pints.

Unit characters ( unofficially ): Imp pt, U.S. dry pt, U.S. liq. pt

Use

Drinks were allowed (even dl l, ml, cl, Switzerland ) are sold long time in Germany only in liters. Since the early 2000s, EU legislation also allows the serving in glasses with different size units.

In Australia, the " half" is ( half a liter ) is called the ( metric) pint since the changeover to the metric system, since the early 2000s in the French catering trade.

Colloquially, the word " pint " is often used in English as a synonym for the term pub. In Flanders is, a pint beer, served in 250 ml glasses. In Cologne, the derived Pintchen developed as a measure of alcoholic beverages.

Up to the present will, inter alia, in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland beer served in pubs (semi-) pintweise. The standard volume of electric kettles, which were first and most popular in the UK is nominally 1.7 liters, but actually 3 Pt.