MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 days agoNot those footballs, American footballs!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1275
arrow-up1275imageNot those footballs, American footballs!sh.itjust.worksMeatPilot@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoDon’t get me started on short forms. Lbs and oz?
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoThey would be way crazier if non-English-speaking countries used imperial units. See language entries for “inch”
minus-squarezikzak025@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agolbs is from libra, the Latin word for “scale”. oz is from onza, the Spanish ounce.
minus-squareQuilotoa@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 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-up1·6 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?
They would be way crazier if non-English-speaking countries used imperial units. See language entries for “inch”
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.