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From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Tablespoons (was: degrees Celsius)
Message-ID: <1997Mar19.105336.17260@sq.com>
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> > > Then: Can anyone tell me how many cm3 is a "cup" - a term frequently
> > > encountered in American (and English?) recepie books?
> >
> > About 237 or 227.  A cup is 8 floz, but perhaps the founding fathers'
> > standard measuring vessel was dented in transit.  For some strange reason
> 
> A US cup is 8 fl.oz.  an Imperial (or British) cup is 10 fl.oz.

In Canada a cup is certainly not 10 fl.oz.; it is 8 Imperial fl.oz.
We had this earlier in the thread, didn't we?
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Mark Brader, msb@sq.com, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
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