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Re: Educate me!
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:04:17 GMT
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Richard Dee wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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 "pound STERLING"...
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| On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:04:17 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) Guessing time. Transition from the "salt" standard, to silver standard? (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:17:25 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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