MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 11 天前Not those footballs, American footballs!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1281arrow-down17
arrow-up1274arrow-down1imageNot those footballs, American footballs!sh.itjust.worksMeatPilot@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 11 天前message-square25linkfedilink
minus-squarezikzak025@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 天前lbs is from libra, the Latin word for “scale”. oz is from onza, the Spanish ounce.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 天前pd and oc would make more sense in an English-speaking country. Here again, the metric system is easier to understand. (We won’t talk about Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre.)
minus-squarezikzak025@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 天前Right, though by nature of being an archaic system, it is susceptible to archaisms in terminology as well. By extension, the UK should then change the iconography of the Pound Sterling (£) from a stylized L to a stylized P.
lbs is from libra, the Latin word for “scale”. oz is from onza, the Spanish ounce.
pd and oc would make more sense in an English-speaking country. Here again, the metric system is easier to understand. (We won’t talk about Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre.)
Right, though by nature of being an archaic system, it is susceptible to archaisms in terminology as well.
By extension, the UK should then change the iconography of the Pound Sterling (£) from a stylized L to a stylized P.