pound

     

Poun may refer to:

Trivia about pound

  • Scrape together 100 pence & trade it into the Bank of England for 1 of these
  • To buy 16 ounces of cookies in Cairo, you'll need the Egyptian this
  • 5,760 grains in troy weight or 7,000 grains in avoirdupois weight
  • 16 ounces
  • The British Conservative Party launched a campaign to "keep" this instead of adopting the Euro
  • Catholic leader Daniel O'Connell appears on notes of this Irish monetary unit also called a punt
  • Prior to 1971, this monetary unit was divided into 20 schillings of 12 pence each
  • Rather than jumping on the euro bandwagon, England still uses this as its unit of currency
  • Charlemagne standardized coinage to 12 pennies in a shilling & 20 shillings in this
  • Completes the expression "In for a penny, in for a..."
  • Cyprus,Egypt,Syria
  • The abbreviation for this unit is from the Latin word libra, meaning "scales"
  • To buy 16 ounces of cookies in Cairo, you'll need the Egyptian this
  • A hundredweight in the U.S. is 100 of these
  • 453.59 grams
  • Brits don't like this name for a phone keypad symbol--reminds them of a unit of currency that has another symbol
  • Charlemagne standardized & spread the use of this, both the monetary unit & the unit of weight

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