Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most measurements in the English language have pretty straightforward abbreviations ― “tbsp” for tablespoon, “qt” for quart, “yd” ...

Most measuring abbreviations are pretty straightforward ("tbsp" for tablespoon, "qt" for quart, "cm" for centimeter, you get the gist). But there's one major exception: "lb" for pound – what?! You've ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company. Stocks soared and put the value of the social-media company at more than $30 billion. So with Twitter in the news, we ...

The hash symbol – also known as the pound/number sign, or even the octothorp(e) as Macworld reader Keith points out – was one of the more rarely used special characters until Twitter and Instagram ...