Editing Pint (section)

==Equivalence==
One US liquid pint of water weighs {{convert|1.0431756|lb|oz|4|lk=in}}, which gives rise to a popular saying: "A pint's a pound the world around".<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Pint's a Pound the World Around |url=https://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2010/04/27/%e2%80%9ca-pint%e2%80%99s-a-pound-the-world-around%e2%80%9d/|department=Government Book Talk (blog) |publisher=[[U.S. Government Publishing Office]] |date=2010-04-27 |access-date=2017-01-30}}</ref>

However, the statement does not hold around the world, because the British imperial pint, which was also the standard measure in Britain's former colonies - such as Ireland, Canada, Australia, India, Malaysia, New Zealand and South Africa - weighs {{convert|1.2528|lb|oz|4|lk=in}}. This prompted the [[Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]] to coin a saying for use in Commonwealth countries: "a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter".<ref>{{cite book|title=Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NeFPAAAAMAAJ|year=1843|publisher=C. Knight|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NeFPAAAAMAAJ/page/n209 200]}}</ref>