Ok, what is it ...

Eric · 12-08-2009, 23:33

Is a gill a half pint, or a quarter pint .... I remember it's being a half .... If you order a gill, what do you expect to get? If my memory tells me that a gill is a half, and google tells me it is a quarter, who is right?

steeljack · 12-08-2009, 23:38

Have to agree with you on this one Eric, never understood it myself ...4 gills =1 pint in official measure , maybe its one of those Lancashire things , anyone know if the term "gill" meaning half a pint is used anywhere apart from Lancashire in the UK

accyman · 13-08-2009, 00:39

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Originally Posted by Eric

If you order a gill, what do you expect to get?

1/2 a pint or if gill happens to be the busty barmaids name then lucky would do

Eric · 13-08-2009, 00:56

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Originally Posted by accyman

1/2 a pint or if gill happens to be the busty barmaids name then lucky would do

Let's hear more about the busty barmaids .... a few pics maybe

steeljack · 13-08-2009, 02:50

after reflection on the subject and looking thru a glass of Bushmills , I'm thinking that pub measures (optics) of spirits were based on a fraction of a gill (1/4 pint) , the English measure 1/5th of a gill (20 to the pint) and the Scots measure 1/4 of a gill (16 to a pint) So how a 1/2 of a pint of Beer became known as a gill I have no idea .

Eric · 13-08-2009, 03:11

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Originally Posted by steeljack

after reflection on the subject and looking thru a glass of Bushmills , I'm thinking that pub measures (optics) of spirits were based on a fraction of a gill (1/4 pint) , the English measure 1/5th of a gill (20 to the pint) and the Scots measure 1/4 of a gill (16 to a pint) So how a 1/2 of a pint of Beer became known as a gill I have no idea .

Me neither .... enjoy the Bushmills ... I'm sucking on Fireball .... but I might have a gill or two later

flashy · 13-08-2009, 06:56

My dad (64 year old man who lives next door) always says 'i'm going for a gill' when he's going to the pub, he always said it was half a pint

Barrie Yates · 13-08-2009, 07:03

Hope this helps - but must admit that to me a gill was always half a pint - of Thwaites's

English weights and measures: Volume and capacity

entwisi · 13-08-2009, 07:08

i seem to recall as well that in England Beer can be sold only in 1/2 and 1/3 of a pint or multiples thereof....

cashman · 13-08-2009, 07:24

well a gill was always half a pint in lancashire, so anywhere else says different must be wrong.

K.S.H · 13-08-2009, 08:50

Ok, what is it ...

NOT ENOUGH

jaysay · 13-08-2009, 09:00

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Originally Posted by Eric

Let's hear more about the busty barmaids .... a few pics maybe

When I hear the term busty barmaids it always reminds me of a pub I frequented in Peckham when working the South London area for Shopfitters, we went in the Adam and Eve on Peckham High Street, the landlady was a lovely girl who served behind the bar most nights topless

and she was a big girl too

jaysay · 13-08-2009, 09:03

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Originally Posted by steeljack

after reflection on the subject and looking thru a glass of Bushmills , I'm thinking that pub measures (optics) of spirits were based on a fraction of a gill (1/4 pint) , the English measure 1/5th of a gill (20 to the pint) and the Scots measure 1/4 of a gill (16 to a pint) So how a 1/2 of a pint of Beer became known as a gill I have no idea .

Could never get used to work the Scotch run 1/4 measure played havoc with my heed the morning after

Slang

jelly baby · 20-08-2009, 14:53

I think that a gill is, in fact, a third of a pint. Although in Lancashire, it was a commonly used term for a half.

wadey · 20-08-2009, 15:01

Imperial unit of volume for liquid measure, equal to one-quarter of a pint or five fluid ounces (0.142 litre), traditionally used in selling alcoholic drinks.

In southern England it is also called a noggin, but in northern England the large noggin is used, which is two gills.