Administered by the Community Associations Institute. The AMS designation is the second tier of the pyramid of professionalism for community association managers. It builds upon the CMCAâs fundamental knowledge with requirements for added education and verified experience in the field.
The use of the phrase pound sign to refer to this symbol is found from 1932 in U.S. usage. Before this time, and still outside the U.S., the term pound sign was used to refer to the pound currency symbol (Â£) or the pound weight symbol (lb). An alternative theory is that this name arose from the fact that character encodings used the same code for both the number sign and the British pound sign Â£.
Itâs shorthand for âpounds weightâ but isnât an abbreviation of the word pounds. The form lb is actually an abbreviation of the Latin word libra, which could mean a pound, itself a shortened form of the full expression, libra pondo, âpound weightâ. The second word of this phrase, by the way, is the origin of the English pound. You will also know Libra as the astrological sign, the seventh sign of the zodiac.