No, I don’t - the American system of volume is different from the one which was used in Britain - pints and gallons are different on each side of the Atlantic. And although some imperial units are still used commonly in conversation in Britain, they have little to no legal or professional status in Britain now. Pints (of milk and beer) and miles (in a car) are the only ones which are still used officially, I think.
I recall that the half crown was also known as “half a dollar” less to do with Spanish money than the old Dollar pound exchange rate.
Australia also had a few unique nicknames for pre-decimal currency.
e.g. 6d was a zack, 1s was a deener and 3d was a trey…
A pint is a pound the world round. A really annoying mnemonic device once you lean than in most of the world a pint is 20 ounces.
“Slang.” “Slang,” he says.
:shakes head slowly:
Were you taking LSD?
US fluid ounces are slightly larger than British ones, US pints have 16 US fluid ounces in them whereas British pints have 20 British fluid ounces in them. British pints are noticeably larger than US ones.
Username/post combo FTW!
It is slightly ironic, though not necessarily interesting, that this was my 1000th post (except for those lost in the Winter of Lost Content around 9 years ago, you will have to take my word for it that they were all the wittiest and most erudite posts ever seen on these boards). I will have to try and put my 1760th post in a thread on the metric system.
Which, ironically, isn’t the same as the Imperial system formerly used in England.
Don’t forget the groat. Everyone forgets the groat…
I grew up in England in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and never had any trouble understanding LSD. Then my family moved to Australia, which had a similar currency with some small differences:
(1) Australia didn’t have the farthing;
(2) In England 1½d was three ha’pence, but in Australia it was a penny ha’penny;
(3) The Australia three-penny bit was a small silver coin, not a dodecahedral one like the British coin;
(4) Australia didn’t have half crowns, but it did have a crown (5/-) issued in 1937, but very rarely seen in circulation.
Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
Keeps a ten bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Beatles
The English threepence wasn’t dodecahedral, either! 
Some of the Brits I know often speak of “stupid money.”
It means either very little money or quite a lot – I need context to discern which. :smack:
Hmmm.
So it took them 95 years to work up that euphemism? Seems a tad slow.
I got that, you know.
Indeed. It was tetradecahedral, a dodecagonal prism.
In an unrelated nitpick, “quid”, “bob”, “nicker” and so forth are not mass nouns. They are countable nouns whose plural forms happen to be the same as the singular.
Well, I don’t know about the USA, but we still call 1p and 2p coins “coppers” here (although they’re technically copper alloy coated iron, these days).
That branch of the family was Irish. I’m not sure how they got to that area, but I’ve read the Scots-Irish were the frontier fighters during the Revolutionary War, and some of the gravestones I’ve seen of my ancestors before her indicated they may have been in Arkansas as early as the 1830s. I’m wondering if my great-grandmother’s practice of using the term “coppers” was an Old World holdover.