Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!uwmcsd1!bbn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa
From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RE: NOT SO interesting stuff on character names...
Message-ID: <11767@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 88 06:55:45 GMT
References: <3@orbit.UUCP>
Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU
Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA
Lines: 13

In article <3@orbit.UUCP> swordfis@pnet51.cts.com (Tim Mitchell) writes:
>Has anyone else wondered how "lbs." got to be an abbreviation of "pounds"?
>Anyone know?

Well, that's easy for an Italian! "lbs." comes from the Latin word "libra"
(libbra in Italian) which "was" a widely used measure of weight in Europe.
I say "was" since almost all of Europe (but not the UK for example) now 
uses the metric system, and therefore kilograms and not pounds.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
uucp:...!pollux!papa       BIX:papa       ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu
 "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=