Why is British money called a pound if they use the metric system?

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But a Kilogram is not a pound it's 2.204623 pounds I think what is more concerning is that they have a measurement based on stones. How did they start using stones and better yet how did the discover that the stones they used were 6.3 kilograms?
 
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You know yankie, you should stop being retarded. Lots of places still use imperial, and use a concoction of both imperial and metric.

In the UK, all our road signs are in MPH. Distances are in miles and yards. We use feet and inches, and milk comes in pints. Some stuff like tools tends to imperial with metric also on the label. But rulers are metric in name, but have both on them.

Also, if you want to find out why we use pound and pence, go and look at what we used before the decimalisation, it was kinda tarded.
 
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ParasiteSteve said:
You know yankie, you should stop being retarded. Lots of places still use imperial, and use a concoction of both imperial and metric.

In the UK, all our road signs are in MPH. Distances are in miles and yards. We use feet and inches, and milk comes in pints. Some stuff like tools tends to imperial with metric also on the label. But rulers are metric in name, but have both on them.

Also, if you want to find out why we use pound and pence, go and look at what we used before the decimalisation, it was kinda tarded.
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I'll pay you a kilogram to hush up.
 
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pound sterling, the basic monetary unit of Great Britain, divided (since 1971) decimally into 100 new pence. The term is derived from the fact that, about 775, silver coins known as “sterlings” were issued in the Saxon kingdoms, 240 of them being minted from a pound of silver, the weight of which was probably about equal to the later troy pound. Hence, large payments came to be reckoned in “pounds of sterlings,” a phrase later shortened to “pounds sterling.” After the Norman Conquest the pound was divided for accounting purposes into 20 shillings and into 240 pennies, or pence. In medieval Latin documents the words libra, solidus, and denarius were used to denote the pound, shilling, and penny, which gave rise to the use of the symbols £, s., and d.

On February 15, 1971, the pound sterling was officially decimalized into 100 new pence. The symbol £ was retained for the pound sterling, and the letter p was chosen for the new penny.
 
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