Still expensive.

Exactly, and the germans "Deutsche" (pronounced "doisch"), the brazilians "brasileiros", italians "italianos", mexicans "mexicanos" (pronounced "mejicanos"), the japanese "日本人" (pronounced Nihon-jin), the russians"Русские" (pronounced "Russkie"), etc.

That's why in every language we have a way to say them, imagine if all cities, currencies, etc. we had to learn saying it in the original language...

 Hell, those carbon blobs in whitehall might even get their heads together and bring the UK into the Euro. Won't happen, though.

In reply to all of the etymology responses:

I didn't realise "livre" was a translation of "pound". I thought you were calling it something entirely different. It makes more sense now. And, yes, I am aware that "France" is not the actual name of the country but is a translation too.

I know it's "pound sterling" officially, but no one (not even the government) uses the full term except in legal documents.

Honestly, right now, why would we want to give our good Euro to the English? I mean we offered it and they declined often enough. Now they can suffer for a bit for being haughty. And we dont have to fly to US for cheap shopping, but rather London...nice.

saldy most console buyers buy their consoles at stores not online.

Well, in Italy Londra. But London's original name was the latin "Londinum" 

Anyway, "livre", "lira" and "libra", from the latin "libra", have all the same original meaning, that is "pound". And the original medieval coins with such names were initially worth one pound of silver, although to not let things be so simple , the weight of one pound, unlike the kilogram, varied from one country to the other.

Edit: sorry, didn't read Seneque explaining the same thing.

Time to buy stilton, cheddar, After Eight, Marmite and PS3!!!

If this is true, I hope to see some good sales in Others by the end of next week.