Talk:Bag (unit)

This article was nominated for deletion on 8 January 2015 (UTC). The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This article was nominated for deletion on 27 March 2015. The result of the discussion was speedy keep.

Mythical unit of weight

There is clearly some connection between Portland cement in bags and the weight of 94lbs. This site [1] offers something called 94 lb. Portland Cement, but the picture of the bag clearly displays "Net Wt. 92.6lb". So even if at some point and time cement was sold in bags holding 94 lbs, this does not make a bag (a container for cement) into a "unit". From personal recollection, a bag of cement actually held 1 cwt, and here is a reference to support this: [2]. Also cement seems (even now) to be sold in bags of 47lbs, which are called "bags", not "half-bags".

So I am removing the "weight unit" claim, and also the clearly bogus use of the term "symbol" (used for SI units, which have symbols rather than abbreviations) claim for "UK bg". If "bag" has to be abbreviated, I suppose there really is only "bg", but no-one in Great Britain before about 1970 (when this "symbol" is presumably claimed to be used) would ever have used the American abbreviation "UK" in this way, least of all as a way of shortening "bag". Imaginatorium (talk) 05:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]