Mind your Ps & Qs
It's bad enough that psychology and pneumonia begin with silent Ps. How did the word pound ever get abbreviated "lb"?
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I'm glad you asked...
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.
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