"Alan Holmes" wrote
| "Owain" wrote
| I see little problem with mixing measurements where useful. Millimetres
| are better for anything less than an inch. Milk is in pints, but beer
| is in half-litres.
| Not where I drink, beer in britain is sold by the pint.

Draught beer in pubs. I don't pay pub prices :-) Half-litre bottles/cans in
Tesco.

And I use a half-litre beer mug as a tea mug. Visitors who accept the offer
of a 'large' tea get a litre mug (two teabags, and don't drop the spoon).

Owain