Talk:Butt
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Do we have a list of wine bottle sizes anywhere yet? I vaguely remember there's magnum, and somewhere down the line nebuchadnezzar. -- Tarquin 15:50 Aug 20, 2002 (PDT)
Shoot, I don't even know whether these are U.S. or imperial gallons (I suspect they're the latter). I was dragged here from the Malmsey site where I knew what I was talking about (and knew I didn't know much more than that), and I've already said everything I know on the subject. But I think I put something in a crossword puzzle once about a jeraboam or something like that. -- isis
Quick Google search reveals:
- interesting article: http://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/about_wine_bottles.htm
- table in progress: http://www.dmhweb.com/wine/bottlesize.htm
- a page from Christie's, which will be very useful for writing a page on AOC: http://www.christies.com/departments/glossary.asp?did=61&view=all
(I can't see the word Malmsey without thinking of that illustration in 1066 and All That... -- Tarquin)
Funny you should say that. (I thought I was the only one who remembered the book, and to find out from you that there's a page for it is sublime.) Working on the Order of the Garter and related articles the other day, I could not get, "Honey, your silk stocking's hanging down," out of my mind. -- isis
[edit] Disambiguation?
This has likely come up before: I don't think the wine butt is the most intuitive or common meaning of the word "butt", and since there are plenty of other meanings (as you can see from the crowded inline disambiguation at the top), I think that this meets the guidelines to be turned into a disambiguation page. Thoughts? - Eisnel 01:14, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
