Thread: Are contractions hard for readers if English isn't their first language?
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Old 01-04-2011, 08:56 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Billi View Post
Wow, thank you. Why is "lb" the abbreviation for "pounds"?
Because it's an abbreviation of the Latin for pound, libra.
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