I’ve finally cracked the mystery of lb/lbs (abbreviation for pound) 🤨

Surprisingly enough, it comes from the Latin LIBRA (a balance / a pair of scales), as in constellation ♎️ (cause it resembles scales ⚖️)

In Ancient Rome there was a unit of measurement called the “libra pondo”, roughly a pound of weight. And while the English word “pound” came from “pondo”, the abbreviation came from libra!!

£ — I mean, look at this, an L with a line through it! LIBRA.

What’s more, this is why Italian currency used to be called the lira!
And if you are thinking about Turkish lira now… Yes 😈

#chilletymology