When out daughter was about 2 or 3 years old, she went to a pumpkin patch with some friends. She came home with this huge pumpkin. I asked where she got it and she said she won it. I asked her how and she said she guessed how many labels it was and she came the closest and she won.
I was a bit confused and asked her again, and she told me she guessed how many tables it was and she won the pumpkin.
The friends had a pamphlet advertising the pumpkin patch and one of the attractions was to guess the weight of this big pumpkin — the one guessing closest, in pounds, would win the pumpkin. When I looked at the brochure, it said, “Guess the weight — closest guess to the No. of lbs. wins the pumpkin.”
So I figured out where the “labels” came from — but when I tried to explain to Kelly (2 or 3 years old) that lbs. was the abbreviation for pounds, she looked at me like I was stupid and just went on about her business like 2 or 3 year olds do.
I didn’t try to explain to her that the abbreviation “lb.” comes from the Latin word for pound, “libra.”
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