TagTijuana

Lb. Abbreviation

Why is the word pound abbreviated lb.? A listener from Tijuana, Mexico, learns that the answer relates to his native Spanish as well as the Latin term for “weighing.” This is part of a complete episode.

complete knockdown

complete knockdown  n.— «Still, said J.D. Powers’ Dunne, Chinese carmakers might not encounter the same challenges penetrating the U.S. market from Tijuana that Honda and Toyota did in the 1980s when they had no local supplier base. These...

yonke

yonke  n.— «Painted in 1977, the mural at one edge of Chicano Park depicts protesters beneath the message “Varrio Si, Yonkes No!” Neighborhood yes, junkyards no.… Yonke, or yonque, is a term for junkyard that is used widely along the...

tortilla wall

tortilla wall  n.— «Alonzo cited the construction of a fence between Tijuana and San Diego, known in Mexico as “the tortilla wall.” It was completed in the 1990s and forced migrants into the sparsely populated and dangerous...

Tijuana chrome

Tijuana chrome
 n.— «Tijuana Chrome…Silver paint.» —“Re: What’s Wisconsin chrome (was C-5 crash)” by Bill Marrs Usenet: rec.crafts.metalworking Apr. 4, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)