/Comes from the Latin libra pondo or //libra pendere
Libra eaning scales or balance and pondo or pendrer being a roughly
equivalent weight of those days.
/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An abbreviation isn't always a shortened word - how did we get "lb" as an
abbreviation for "pound"?
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