MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 days agoNot those footballs, American footballs!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down16
arrow-up1174arrow-down1imageNot those footballs, American footballs!sh.itjust.worksMeatPilot@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoDon’t get me started on short forms. Lbs and oz?
minus-squarezikzak025@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agolbs is from libra, the Latin word for “scale”. oz is from onza, the Spanish ounce.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agopd 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-up1·2 days agoRight, 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.
Don’t get me started on short forms. Lbs and oz?
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.