Ok, what is it ...

[Eric]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[K.S.H]

Ok, what is it ...

NOT ENOUGH

 

[jaysay]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Eric]

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

That's my conclusion too ....