They cost more than a standard sleeve half, but were in fact half pint with a 1/3 marker in a fancy and more expensive design. They didn't cost more than pints IIRC.
Standard mark up across all the glasses.
Irrespective of cost they were every bit as popular as I said they would be and a bit more.
I know it's not right I was just giving an example of how a group of speakers have given a different meaning to a word!
We've been here before. As usual different parts of the UK have used different terms. For example in the midlands a third of a pint is never referred to as a nip but as a "stick".
See:
Not that I'm recommending it per se, but Australians have even more different drinking amounts; see the table toward the bottom of
a "pint" in Adelaide is only 3/4 of a "proper" British 20oz pint!
From experience; in Ireland if drinking halves one should ask for a "glass".
There's probably a PhD for someone here.
Ah, but one has to be selective! At one festival my memory became distinctly hazy after a half of (draught) Fuller's Golden Pride - about the 7th beer I had tried so far.
Sometimes being sensible is SSSSSoooooooooooo boring!!
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