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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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An imperial measurement of weight and also for many centuries the basic unit of British currency. The two were originally linked, at a time when 240 silver pennies, known as *sterlings, weighed one pound.
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