Pounds, shillings and pence are humorously abbreviated as what?

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Pounds, shillings and pence are humorously abbreviated as what?

Pounds, shillings and pence were the three units of the old British currency, and the Latin names for them are librae, solidi, and denarii. Taking the initial letters gives LSD, a playful, historical shorthand you’ll see in jokes or trivia about pre-decimal money. It’s a curiosity rather than a current code, because today we use pounds and pence and the common shorthand GBP for the currency as a whole. The other options point to modern currencies (US dollars, euros) or the modern shorthand for British currency itself, not the humorous trio.

Pounds, shillings and pence were the three units of the old British currency, and the Latin names for them are librae, solidi, and denarii. Taking the initial letters gives LSD, a playful, historical shorthand you’ll see in jokes or trivia about pre-decimal money. It’s a curiosity rather than a current code, because today we use pounds and pence and the common shorthand GBP for the currency as a whole. The other options point to modern currencies (US dollars, euros) or the modern shorthand for British currency itself, not the humorous trio.

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