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Re: Educate me!
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:39:41 GMT
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:17:25 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following
profundities...
> r hendrix wrote:
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> > What in the world is a £ anyway?
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> It's the currency symbol used for the Great Britain Pound. I'm not 100%
> sure but I think the Irish Punt uses the same symbol. It is exactly
> analogous to $ being the currency symbol for US and Canadian and a bunch
> of other dollars.
Yes, 'tis the same symbol.
Now, for the history, why a pound?
The Roman soldiers that occupied our land were paid in salt,
one pound of it. The "L"-like appearance of the symbol, derives
from the Latin and French for pound, which is Livre or Libre,
specifically which I can't remember off hand.
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| (...) Not just in the UK, that apparently was an empire wide thing, although I hadn't heard the bit about it being one pound's worth. Salt and Salary have the same latin root. Now you know why. However your explanation doesn't explain why it's a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) It's the currency symbol used for the Great Britain Pound. I'm not 100% sure but I think the Irish Punt uses the same symbol. It is exactly analogous to $ being the currency symbol for US and Canadian and a bunch of other dollars. (...) The (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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