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SIXFOOTSTEVE
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It\'s a bit like going the fruit shop and buying a pear.....and only getting one !!
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Ell
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A onety one lb cod perhaps
Why don\'t we say Lerb (lb) instead of pound?
[Edited on 18/2/2005 by Ell]
mark
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from the latin plumbate, deriv: of lead, hence plumber, a pound was a standard avoirdupois measure of lead which has a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec (lbf orginally!)
Also from libra the latin for pound
and for what its worth, in old money, there were 240 pennies to the pound, which came from the Carlovingian period when the Roman pound (twelve ounces) of pure silver was coined into 240 silver pennies
I need to get out more
[Edited on 19/2/2005 by mark]
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Ell
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Why don\'t we say \"LatPlumb\" then?
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TC
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\"From the latin plumbate, deriv: of lead, hence plumber, a pound was a standard avoirdupois measure of lead which has a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec (lbf orginally!)
Also from libra the latin for pound
and for what its worth, in old money, there were 240 pennies to the pound, which came from the Carlovingian period when the Roman pound (twelve ounces) of pure silver was coined into 240 silver pennies\"
YEP, I thought as much, meself
:exclam:
[Edited on 19/2/2005 by TC]
Also from libra the latin for pound
and for what its worth, in old money, there were 240 pennies to the pound, which came from the Carlovingian period when the Roman pound (twelve ounces) of pure silver was coined into 240 silver pennies\"
YEP, I thought as much, meself
:exclam: [Edited on 19/2/2005 by TC]
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Ell
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Pure showing off Tony, ignore him!
