And L for British pounds, and lb for pounds in weight in America, and other seemingly meaningless abbreviations...where do they come from?
2007-01-25 09:21:18 · 5 answers · asked by fireflower413 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Wikipedia has a few theories on the dollar sign's origins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#History
And pound is abbreviated to "lb" because of the Latin word for a similar measurement (libra pondo): http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/64861.html
2007-01-25 09:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by Ultima vyse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how true this is, but my 5th grade teacher mentioned something about the two lines inside the S in $ is a shortened version of a U and an S stacked on top of each other. Does that make sense?
I don’t know how it became, but it turned into standard.
2007-01-25 10:04:46 · answer #2 · answered by mardelgarfer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keyboard
2007-01-25 09:33:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry i have no idea. very good question though.
2007-01-25 09:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by motbubbles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it's not it's $
2007-01-25 09:25:27 · answer #5 · answered by Amy Ashley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋