No. 1
 

Do you know what I just realized? The abbreviation of number is "No.", as in "No. 1", even though the word "number" has no "O"s in it at all. Now just what the fuck is up with that?

No. comes from the word numero, not number.

from the latin, I think

I really should've thought of that.

OK..how about lbs. meaning 'pounds' then?

That's the plural of lb, which comes from libra. Which in Latin means "pound or weight," and the constellation Libra is named such because of it. I'm not sure how it got from Latin to English, but I'd bet it was through French.

It's from libra, which means scale in Latin.

Holy 3 year gap between posts, CW. were you in the joint?

I have been a Good Girl these 3 years and I'm sticking with that story. :tinfoil:

Between grad school, finding a new job, managing a couple of websites and trying to light a fire under a web-based business, I had to cut some time from somewhere...

No worries though. I still continued to lurk in the IotDs.