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You gained pounds (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I had forgotten about predecimal currency! God I'm glad the US never did that shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Inflation would be heavy in that system