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From: u3369429@murdu.OZ (Michael Bednarek)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation (or in this case '#')
Message-ID: <1216@murdu.OZ>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 18:29:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 18:29:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 06:02:15 EST
References: <6905@clyde.ATT.COM> <246@roosta.btnix.uucp>
Reply-To: u3369429@murdu.oz.au (Michael Bednarek)
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In article <246@roosta.btnix.uucp> winton@btnix.uucp (Neil Winton) writes:
>Incidentally, I believe the origin of the `real' pound sign is from a modified
>`L' standing for `Lire' (latin (?) for `pound').

Risking getting egg-faced:
I believe the latin word is: librum, plural: libra .
The Italian words are: Lira, plural: Lire

BTW, who put this mis-spelled version of pronunciation in the subject line?

Michael Bednarek (u3369429@murdu.oz.au)