Re: Watsit#9

In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.991012193601.5761C-100000@vtn1>, Geraldine Jones <we9...@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, (-: Rand :-) wrote:
>On 12 Oct 1999 01:48:19 GMT ton...@aol.commander (The Super Happy
>Karate Monkey) found it necessary to say:=20
>
> Watsit#9
>
>   /T/ / ,  /
>  /T/ / ,  /
> /T/ / ,  /
>############
>
>SO,what _is_ it?
>
>Twelve slashes, three letter "T"s, three commas, and twelve pound
>signs.
>'---------------------------------
>Pound signs? Thems is hashes. This --> =A3 <-- is a pound sign ... on =
>this british DOS character set, anyway :o)  (ASCII 156 ... I know it's
>non-standard ASCII, but it should be!)
>Well in the US they cal this # a pound sign! Can't help it. How do you
>Brits cal this sign?
>
>Yeah, come to think of it, what the hell IS the Brittish pound sign?=
>???
>
>*grin*      =A3              =20
>                                 _
>                             _ /_ '
>It was always a curly L...    /     ....something like that, when I was in
>                           (\/...'       school....in the 50's and 60's.

The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra'
because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation
for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L'
for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. 
Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira'
coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was
always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d"
(libra/solidus/denarius). 
    
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                      akg  "       " 


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              Mae West - I've been things and done places.


                   
                  
                 
                
                              

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