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From: mgh@hou5h.UUCP (Marcus Hand)
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Subject: Re: Re: Semantic Reversals
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 20:34:10 EST
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Just a short follow up to what Bill Wyatt was saying about "proof"
and its meaning in the alcoholic context.

	Proof spirit (100 proof spirit to be precise) is the mixture which
	will just permit gunpowder to go off still.  A lower proof rating
	and it fizzles out, a higher one and it is still fearsome.  If my
	memory serves me correctly, 100 proof is 58.42% alcohol by volume.
	Of course, in the US this isn't true because the proof values
	have been fiddled around with to make them simple (100 proof =
	50% by volume?) which is why you should thik twice before saying
	that one liquor is stronger than another if they've been brought
	back from a vacation.
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			Marcus Hand	(hou5h!mgh)