From: tppm@ca.rr.com   
      
   On Sat, 4 May 2024 21:32:10 -0000 (UTC), Cryptoengineer   
    wrote:   
      
   >Paul Dormer  wrote:   
   >> In article , tppm@ca.rr.com   
   >> (Tim Merrigan) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> I thought in the UK a pound was a unit of currency.   
   >>   
   >> And a pound sterling apparently originally meant a pound weight of silver   
   >> coins called sterlings.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I always thought it was a pound of sterling silver.   
   >   
   >Adjacent fun fact: A mile was originally defined as 1000 paces of a Roman   
   >soldier.   
   >   
   >Therefore it's  a metric unit, the kilopace.   
   >   
   >Pt   
      
      
   Roman soldiers had 5.28 foot paces?  Isn't 3 feet closer to normal?   
      
   BTW you don't need to translate milia passuum (from which mile   
   derives) into Greek.  (Which would be chiliádes vímata   
   (transliterated).)   
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