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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.)
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.