• ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I do hope this isn’t a road to the term ‘pint’ just becoming a generic name rather than actually holding meaning. I remember when a 99 referred to the price!

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      2 months ago

      The number 99 meant royalty in Belgium, where flakes came from. Nothing to do with price

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          2 months ago

          Lion and Unicorn? Probably? The actual crown itself has a fancy form of copyright on it where you cannot really use it on anything except for historical stuff or tacky memorabilia celebrating the likes of a coronation, jubilee, birth, death, etc

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      2 months ago

      The british pound once referred to the value of a “pound” of silver at the time. Though the meaning of even that measurement of weight has likely changed