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You know we use pounds as a weight measurement too, right?
Some countries use imperial measurements, others metric, but the UK enjoys both.
Curious about something for years. Especially before metricization, when y'all bought things in shops, did it ever get confusing if someone was talking about weight or price? Like it's a pound a pound or a pound per half pound. "Give me a pound's worth" of ham. You 100 pence worth when you wanted 16 ounces. Not explaining myself well because it's 5am, but I hope you get what I mean. Lol
Sterling wasn't even decimalised until the 70s, so you'd often be talking about florins, shillings, pence etc. before pounds.
So in a lot of ways it was even worse!
I had forgotten about predecimal currency! God I'm glad the US never did that shit