Historically, the pound name derives from a series of abbreviations for pound, the unit of weight.

Some of them, those official in former Italian states and in countries formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, are called pound in English, while in the local languages their official name is lira.

The name also forms the basis for the Arabic word for the Egyptian pound الجنيه el-Gineih, as a sum of 100 qurush ( i. e., one pound ) was worth approximately 21 shillings at the end of the 19th century.

* Egyptian pound, the native name of which is derived from the guinea, to which it was equal in value in the late 19th century.

The name of this currency is thus similar to the lira, pound and peso.

From 1938, the means of tender was referred to as the Irish pound, after the Constitution of Ireland changed the state's name.

Not all stores with " pound " in their name use a fixed pricing model, for example Poundstretcher sells many items at higher prices.

The name is the contracted past participle of the Genoese word pestâ ( Italian: pestare ), which means to pound, to crush, in reference to the original method of preparation, with marble mortar and wooden pestle.

In 1680 William Dockwra established the London Penny Post, a mail delivery system that delivered letters and parcels weighing up to one pound within the city of london and some of its immediate suburbs for the sum of one penny .< ref name =" William Dockwra and the Penny Post Service "></ span ></ font ></ ref >

Some of these variations may drastically change the texture and flavor of the pound cake, but the name pound cake is often still used.

In 1879, the hundred pound weight was re-legalized for trade in the UK under the name " cental ", in response to legislative pressure from UK merchants who were importing wheat and tobacco from the USA.

) The English name pound is a Germanic adaptation of the Latin phrase libra pondo ' a pound weight '.

It is common to name a unit with a unit of weight, such as pound, lira, and baht.

: Charlotte's past remains mysterious, as to her name was given by an elder, but it is known that she escaped from the pound.

The name " lira " was used on banknotes beginning in 1973, initially jointly with " pound ", and exclusively on both coins and banknotes since 1986.

After being taken to a pound, and eventually escaping from it, he is raised by an elderly homeless woman named Bella ( Collin Wilcox Paxton ), who gives him the name Fluke, stating that he's " a fluke by nature, and by name.

One time, it is said that he lured 500 buffalo into a pound using this very method grasping the name Pihtokahanapiwiyin, ' The One Who Sits at the Pound '.

Until 1952, the name used on the notes of the Anglo-Palestine Bank was Palestine pound, in Hebrew לירה א " י ( lira E. Y.

Ray, under the name Michel de Carvalho, later became a prominent British businessman and, through his wife, Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, is the majority shareholder in the Heineken brewing company, worth over £ 8, 000, 000, 000 sterling as of 2002.

Besides biographical sketches of Defoe, Sir John Davies, Allan Ramsay, Sir David Lyndsay, Churchyard and others, prefixed to editions of their respective works, the British government paid Chalmers 500 pounds sterling to write a hostile biography of Thomas Paine, the author of the Rights of Man, that Chalmers published under the assumed name of Francis Oldys, A. M., of the University of Pennsylvania ; and a life of Ruddiman, in which considerable light is thrown on the state of literature in Scotland during the earlier part of the last century.

) is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies ( sterling ) used in the Kingdom of England, later the United Kingdom, and ultimately in much of the British Empire until 1971.

The choice of the name " dollar " was motivated by the fact that the reduced value of the new unit corresponded more closely to the value of the US dollar than it did to the pound sterling.

The choice of the name dollar was motivated by the fact that the reduced value of the new unit corresponded more closely to the value of the US dollar than it did to the pound sterling.

The choice of the name dollar was motivated by the fact that the reduced value of the new unit corresponded more closely to the value of the US dollar than it did to the pound sterling.

Hadley contracted with defendants Baxendale and Ors, who were operating together as common carriers under the name Pickford & Co., to deliver the crankshaft to engineers for repair by a certain date at a cost of £ 2 sterling and 4 shillings.

Great Britain's early use of the silver standard is still reflected in the name of its currency, the pound sterling, which traces its origins to before the Middle Ages ( see Anglo-Saxon pound ), when King Offa of Mercia introduced the silver penny, which copied the denarius of Charlemagne's Frankish Empire.

The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: " Regio TriRhena ".

In 1987, the Library of Congress Country Study said that the Air Force's official name, Ivoirian Air Transport and Liaison Group ( Groupement Aérien de Transport et de Liaison -- GATL ), ' reflects an original mission focused more on logistics and transport rather than a combat force.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

In Croatian, however, the day's name reflects a particular theological connection: it is called Uskrs, meaning " Resurrection ".

[...] The name 2030 reflects my conviction that the years around 2030 will be a magical time.

Commercial devices called " magnetic filters " are sold, but the name reflects their use, not their mode of operation.

The city's Latin name may be given as either Gedania, Gedanum or Dantiscum ; the variety of Latin names reflects the mixed influence of the city's Polish, German and Kashubian heritage.

The Arabic name of Gamma Gruis ( al-dhanab, " the tail ") reflects this origins.

Alexander Dane is an accomplished British actor whose name — or stage name ?-- reflects his experience in Shakespearean theatre (" the melancholy Dane " is a well-known description of Hamlet ).

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

The name reflects Houston's role as the center of the U. S. Space Program.

This name reflects the fact that while in many respects Shemini Atzeret is a separate holiday in its own right, in certain respects its celebration is linked to that of Sukkot.

His family name was originally written Samenhof, in German orthography ; the spelling Zamenhof reflects the romanization of the Yiddish spelling, as well as the Esperanto and Polish spellings.

Sowing is an apt name for this activity, since not only are many games traditionally played with seeds, but placing seeds one at a time in different holes reflects the physical act of sowing.

The name " Normandy " reflects Rollo's Viking ( i. e. " Northman ") origins.

The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs, usually between 20 and 50, although shorter and longer forms of limited overs cricket have been played.

However, its final English name, suggested in 1831, reflects the more physically similar elements carbon and boron.

Waverley ( whose surname name reflects his divided loyalties ) eventually decides to lead a peaceful life of establishment respectability under the House of Hanover rather than live as a proscribed rebel.

The airport's official English name, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, reflects the original Dutch word order ( Luchthaven Schiphol ).

The name ( giant cell arteritis ) reflects the type of inflammatory cell involved as seen on a biopsy.

The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber estuary.

Kaveri is also referred to as ponni in the South and the name reflects the geographic region where it is grown.

His name reflects this idea ; it is a derivative of the Indo-European word for " bright, shining sky ".