British Lb's?!
Question: Does anyone know what the Letters LB's that represent british pounds in weight come from and what word they are short for ?
10 points for first correct answer.
Answers: Does anyone know what the Letters LB's that represent british pounds in weight come from and what word they are short for ?
10 points for first correct answer.
Heres the whole story from cliffnotes
It's no accident that the word pound represents both a measurement of weight and the currency of England. One pound sterling was originally worth the same as one Troy pound of sterling silver. So, at one time, 10 pounds (currency) was actually the equivalent of 10 pounds (the weight) of silver. The basic Roman unit of weight was the libra pondo; libra means "scales or balances," and pondo comes from pendere, meaning "to weigh." Pondo became pound, and libra became the abbreviation lb., reflecting the medieval custom of keeping accounts in Latin.
Incidentally, this also explains why the zodiac sign for Libra is a set of scales.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Sect...
Comes from the Latin 'libra' which means both weighing scales (think Libra in the Zodiac) and also a pound weight, 'libra pondo', with 'pondo' being the origin of our word pound.
i go with the above...:-)
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