As I brought up measurements, I remember that I always wonder

[conuly]

When did people stop putting T for tablespoon and t for teaspoon? Cookbooks today always seem to use Tb and ts, and while that probably ends a lot of confusion I still can't figure out when this changed. I'm certain when I was little I was taught Big T and little t, and that wasn't that long ago, was it?

Comments

[vaecrius]

After the fifth or sixth time byte/bit gets mixed up in ordinary discourse I for one welcome our digraphic overlords.

[conuly]

Two bits, four bits, six bits, a byte. Now that we've said that, get me a Sprite.

[redbird]

I think I grew up with tbsp and tsp, and T/t confuses me sometimes. I'm 49, so I'm wondering whether this is regional, or different cookbooks just used different things. I don't remember being taught about teaspoons and tablespoons as units of measure at the age when I'd expect it; somewhere along the line I learned that 3 teaspoons make a tablespoon, and 2 tablespoons make an ounce, but I think that was from reading about cooking, not in there with how many inches to a foot or ounces to a quart.

[conuly]

Also, fluid ounces and ounces are different, in that they measure different things,

[steorra]

I grew up with both T/t and Tbsp/tsp. Usually with a capital in Tbsp. (Age 30.)