No drinker likes to be short-changed, as the Magna Carta recognised more than 800 years ago: “Let there be one measure for wine through our whole realm, and one measure for ale, and one measure for corn, to wit ‘the London quarter’; and one width of cloth, whether dyed, russet or halberget . . . ”
没有一个饮酒者喜欢短斤少两,正如《大宪章》(Magna Carta)在800多年前就认识到这一点:“全国应有统一之度量衡。酒类、烈性麦酒与谷物之量器,以伦敦夸尔为标准;染色布、土布、锁子甲布之宽度应以织边下之两码为标准…… ”
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