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You gained pounds
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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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
Inflation would be heavy in that system