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Originally Posted by DMB
My bugbear is "lbs" for "pounds". The Latin word librum (pl. libra) is abbreviated to give "lb". But that is also the correct abbreviation for the plural.
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This reminds me of an acquaintance who cringes at the plural "paninis" (for Italian sandwiches) - when a term enters English as a "loan word" it can have the plural "s", so "lb" as a plural seems to me applicable to Ancient Rome (and I suppose the 7-11 in the Vatican).