Peter Burke welcomes an opportunity to finally end the sale of beer in imperial units

It is entirely commendable to try to bring down the nation’s alcohol consumption (Pint of no return? Two-thirds measure could boost English health – study, 17 September). Whether reducing the size of the standard beer measure succeeds in achieving this remains to be seen.

What is unaccountable is the proposal to move from a pint measure (20 fluid ounces) to two‑thirds of a pint (13.33 fluid ounces), which is not even a round number in imperial measures. Nor, indeed, does it have a name.