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Originally Posted by TheHempress  I can answer that!
[Q] From Andrea: “Why are pounds, when used as a weight, abbreviated lbs?”
[A] The origin is in the Latin word libra, which could mean both balance scales (hence the symbol for the astrological sign Libra, which was named after a constellation that was thought to resemble scales) and also a pound weight, for which the full expression was libra pondo, the second word being the origin of our pound. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pou1.htm |
perplexity demolished!
I really wasn't expecting an answer so fast...
thanks hempress...I guess
