Гилл: Көлем бірлігі және тарихы

Unit of volume with different values
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The gill '/dʒ//ɪ//l/ or teacup is a unit of measurement for volume equal to a quarter of a pint. It is no longer in common use, except in regard to the volume of alcoholic spirits measures.

Prior to metrication, in the United Kingdom, the standard single measure of spirits in a pub was in England and Northern Ireland, and either or in Scotland. After metrication, this was replaced by measures of either , at the discretion of the proprietor. However, a spirit measure in the Isle of Man is still defined as and in Northern Ireland. Half of a gill is a jack, or an eighth of a pint. But in northern England, a quarter pint could also be called a jack or a noggin, rather than a gill, and in some areas a half pint could be called a gill, particularly for beer and milk.

In Ireland, the standard spirit measure was historically 1/4 gill and in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, it still retains this value, though it is now legally specified in metric units as .

The cumulative song "The Barley Mow". The traditional English folk song "Byker Hill" begins with the words, "If I had another penny, I would have another gill." The Fall's song "Edinburgh Man" contains the line "Keep me away from the Festival and just give me a warm quarter gill."

A gill is also referenced in Archer season 2, episode 3 ("Blood Test") when Barry explains to Archer that a liter of blood is, "about 8 gills". (Eight gills would be , or .) A call back reference, also discussing units of blood, is further made in season 3, episode 3 ("Heart of Archness, Part 3"). In both instances, the word is pronounced with a hard ⟨g⟩. In "Bart the Genius," an episode of The Simpsons, a child tricks Bart by offering, "I'll trade you 1,000 picoliters of my milk for four gills of yours." (A picoliter is a trillionth of a liter, so Bart is losing almost a pint of milk in this exchange.)

Because of its more widely used homograph, gill has sometimes been mispronounced with a hard 'g' sound. In English, the sound of soft ⟨g⟩ is the affricate /dʒ/, as in general, giant, and gym. A ⟨g⟩ at the end of a word usually renders a hard ⟨g⟩ (as in "rag"), while if a soft rendition is intended it would be followed by a silent ⟨e⟩ (as in "rage"). FX's animated cartoon Archer mispronounced gill in the episodes "Blood Test" (Season 2, Episode 3) and "Heart of Archness: Part Three" (Season 3, Episode 3).