Following are approximate conversions. The Imperial "tablespoon" is generally interpreted as half a fluid ounce (the measure used in the following table), but sometimes as five eights of an ounce (which would be approximately 17.76 milliliters).
A mnemonic (pronounced [nəˈmɒnɪk] in RP, [nɪ'mɑnɪk] in GA) is a memory aid that generally serves an educational purpose. They are mostly verbal, e.g a word, each of whose letters help the user to remember the first letters of items in a list. However, there are also other types of mnemonics, such as visual mnemonics. Mnemonics rely on associations between something that is easy to remember, and something that is harder to remember. Sometimes mnemonics are chosen to directly relate to the target information, and othertimes they are arbitrary.
No, we don't have a perfectly good measuring system! We have a clumsy, entangled, confusing measuring system! Only 4 countries not using metric system, Galon is buffalo skull size. TIME: 02:29
