2013年5月4日 · Note, naturally 5 lb occurs more often than other forms because 5 lb occurs in every instance of any of {5 lbs, 5 lb, 5 lb., 5 lbs.}. Ngrams for 5 lbs,5 lb,5 lb .,5 lbs . shows that 5 lb. and 5 lbs. nowadays occur with nearly equal frequency, the latter slightly more frequently. Before 1980, 5 lb. occurred rather more frequently than 5 lbs.

2015年11月29日 · The “standard” pronunciation of lb or lbs is the same as for pound(s). However, given the nature of humans, I find it likely that in some slang a pronunciation based on the written word is used, ...

Answers to Correct usage of lbs. as in "pounds" of weight suggest that "lb" is for "libra" (Latin), but how has this apparent inconsistency between the specific unit of weight "pound" and the more general concept of weight "libra" arisen? It seems analogous to abbreviating "grams" to "w" for weight which makes no sense to me.

2021年9月2日 · The abbreviation lbs would not normally be considered as either an acronym or an initialism, both of which conventionally require contributory letters from more than one word in the expansion (see eg M-W).

Possible Duplicate: Punctuation with units How to write units? I see many people don't use a space between a numeral and an abbreviation, such as "7lb" or "5mm". Shouldn't it be "7 lbs." an...

No. Yes. Maybe. It depends. It's always been my understanding with metric measures, that abbreviations for units larger than the base unit measure are capitalized, and units smaller than the base unit are lower case. Dm would be dekameter (ten meters), while dm is decimeter (a tenth of a meter), both based on the unit meter. When not abbreviated, they follow the standard rules for capitalizing ...

2017年9月18日 · Wrot -iron guide for same, 455 lbs. at 12 cents It thus appears that wrot was in use as a variant spelling of wrought in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States by 1876.

2012年10月3日 · I always stumble when using abbreviations in a sentence, as they inherently contain a period in them. How do I use a comma or a semicolon after an abbreviation? How about a period? E.g. (This is an

2014年4月5日 · The musical sharp (♯) is technically a different character from the octothorpe (#), though they are superficially similar. The Wikipedia article describes the origin of the alternative names number sign, pound sign, and hash among others.

2019年3月27日 · Is there a rule on acronyms and initialisms being spelled out with the first letter of each word being uppercase or lowercase? Example: interim final rule (IFR) Interim Final Rule (IFR)