On 29/01/2012 18:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
... except pints and gallons of course. The US "English" system has
never been used in England.
IIRC, it has. The UK one was changed sometime after US independence. They
stuck to the old units, understandably.

I'm prepared to be proved wrong, but a little rummage suggest the US
gallon is based on the English Gallon as used for Wine, and there was no
unified English Gallon.

I'm also quite prepared for someone to say British not English...

Andy