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

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

I had forgotten about predecimal currency! God I'm glad the US never did that shit

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Inflation would be heavy in that system