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Niki Tonsky

WTF “lb” reads as “pound”???

23 September at 22:43 | Open on mastodon.online
9 comments
Keir
Barry Centricsubdivision

@nikitonsky Another fine bit of absurdity from my home country, the UK. Supposedly, it's from Latin libra - scales or a unit of weight. Before decimalisation of the currency in 1971, LSD used to mean pounds, shillings and pence (libra, solidus, dinarius). Just part of what the Romans did for us. 🙄

23 September at 23:00 | Open on functional.cafe
Kirill Chernyshov

@nikitonsky and this $ reads as dollar. what's your point?

24 September at 6:38 | Open on mastodon.social
PointlessOne :loading:

@nikitonsky Is “oz” reading “ounce” better?

24 September at 7:21 | Open on status.pointless.one
Niki Tonsky

@pointlessone yeah, a little bit actually, because I can connect the two in my head. But when I see `lb` my mind just reads `labels` or smth

24 September at 8:16 | Open on mastodon.online
PointlessOne :loading:

@nikitonsky Yeah. IIRC, lb comes from Latin and that's why it's weird. TBH, English is full of weird dissonances between written and spoken languages.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chao

24 September at 8:21 | Open on status.pointless.one
Kevin Conner

@nikitonsky Wait til you hear how we stylize "et" as "&" and pronounce it "and"

24 September at 7:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Ed

@nikitonsky haha. Only made sense when I first found out because “pound” is “Libra” in Spanish 😀

24 September at 15:39 | Open on c.im
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