Curiosity took me to the Wikipedia page for "pound" and I learned some things there, too... such as the abbreviation for pound, "lb", which never really made an

Curiosity took me to the Wikipedia page for "pound" and I learned some things there, too... such as the abbreviation for pound, "lb", which never really made any sense to me traces it's etymology from the Roman "libra". The libra/lb was divided into 12 parts, latin "unciae", which became ounces. Cool. As for the pound itself, seems like it just started as being measure against a certain amount of grain (who counted them!?) and caught on worldwide as global trade occurred.