Pound in other languages is “libra”, as is weight scale …
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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.
this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.
thatGuyWithGlasses@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
poopkins@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How ironic that Americans use a foreign language to describe their unit of measurement that is used nowhere outside the USA.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s literally used in the UK, wheee it fucking came from.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lbs is a shortened version of the Greek word for measuring scales. So it actually doesn‘t mean a specific weight, but more like “weighed” or something.
pipes@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
While true that originally it also meant “balance” (in late latin we later got the word bilanx for scales - literally two plates), lb is for latin libra, and it was an actual specific weight (with a corresponding economical value in the Roman as coin) in use since the Roman republic, and it has remained in use for more than two millennia all over the world (with slighly different values depending on time and place, but usually between 350-450grams). It’s not an accident the the UK pound stirling coin still has the same L shaped symbol £, same as the italian lira, etc