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Have you ever wondered who it was that decided that the abbreviation for "pound" should be two letters not in the word?
@GaryPoole Funnily enough I was chatting with @tyghebright about this just the other day. It's those darned Romans and their Latin. Again! 🤣
Yes!
We were talking about #, which I think of as the pound sign... # originally stood for pound weight, and later number. And £ the money, pound, was based on the weight of a pound of silver.
They both come from the symbol ℔, which represented the Roman term libra pondo, or pound weight. Thus, the abbreviation for pound = lb.
@GaryPoole Libra is the Latin word for weight. Lb is the abbreviation of libra