Ratio / Ration? What?

[Efour]

Settle the proverbial stupid argument.

When describing a Ratio, for the sake of argument, Mixing an orange juice drink 4:! "4 parts water to one part squash/concentrate"

Has it ever been acceptable to refer to this as a ration and not a ratio.
"The ration of water to juice is 4 :1 "

or is this some kind of American *******ization of English where rationing has been confused with ratio and become interchangeable by the dumb.

Or am i dumb? Dont answer that.

 

[OhEsEcks]

Word Origin
C18: via French from Latin ratiō calculation; see reason

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ration

 

[doofer]

or is this some kind of American *******ization of English where rationing has been confused with ratio and become interchangeable by the dumb.

*******isation.

 

[mattyfez]

Ratio.

A ration is: John needs to survive for ten days and has ten fillet steaks,
How many steaks per day should John eat?

 

[Efour]

*******isation.

lol

 

[The Dread Pirate]

You could describe a ratio with rations in the sense of one ration of water to 4 rations of squash as a ration is basically a fixed amount of a product/substance/thing. If anything the word ration probably came from the ratio's they were using sometime in the distant past as a way of defining the amounts they were handing out in times of war famine or other hardship that required resources to be shared fairly in order for survival.

 

[Monkeynut]

Horatio if you're Spanish.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Horatio if you're Spanish.

Hornblower if you're English!

 

[QlimaxUK]

Shouldn't it be 8:1 with concentrate?

or maybe 6:1

 

[ikillbears]

*******isation.

thank you, i was going to do the same. seems ironic from some who complains about american english

 

[daz]

I often write 'ration' as a typo of 'ratio', possibly could be something similar going on?

 

[Orford]

Dilute to colour not to taste. It's a 12:1 ratio, 12 equal measure of water to one measure of concentrate. Using same measure.

That's how to ration the Orange juice. Make it last longer, ratio is how to mix it, thus aiming to achieve the desired number of rations.

 

[adolf hamster]

(-1)^0.5 says "be rational!"

3.1415926535897932384626233832795028841971693993... says "get real!"

 

[danza]

I often write 'ration' as a typo of 'ratio', possibly could be something similar going on?

 

[Snubber]

I often write 'ration' as a typo of 'ratio', possibly could be something similar going on?

I do this all the time...something to do with muscle memory and doing things without really thinking about them.

 

[Sliver]

1 part Efour to 4 parts stupid should do the trick.

 

[spoffle]

thank you, i was going to do the same. seems ironic from some who complains about american english

Oh look, that's the American use of ironic too!

 

[spoffle]

You could describe a ratio with rations in the sense of one ration of water to 4 rations of squash as a ration is basically a fixed amount of a product/substance/thing. If anything the word ration probably came from the ratio's they were using sometime in the distant past as a way of defining the amounts they were handing out in times of war famine or other hardship that required resources to be shared fairly in order for survival.

You were doing well until you typed "ratio's", then you MURDERED it.

 

[Freakbro]

You were doing well until you typed "ratio's", then you MURDERED it.

LITERALLY!

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Ratio.

A ration is: John needs to survive for ten days and has ten fillet steaks,
How many steaks per day should John eat?

1:1