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Hi, Dallas!  Recently you wrote in a message to Denis Mosko:

DH>  tsp is the customary abbreviation for "teaspoon",


          With or without the period, yes.



DH>  and in the same way, tbs (sometimes tbp) is the
DH>  abbreviation for "tablespoon".


          The one I see most often is "tbsp(.)", but some people evidently
like to use the same number of letters in both... and I gather from the
articles you found that in the UK various other abbreviations may also be used.

          A further complication is that in older British recipes & possibly
in Australian recipes one tbsp. = four tsp.  When we were in high school, a
friend told me her mother... who had grown up in the UK... didn't realize
Canadians do things differently until a cooking attempt failed to turn out as
expected.  :-Q




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