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[JeffHamm]

It appears we're both right, well, at least according to Wikipedia, the source of all truth and knowledge!  There are two "kinds" of pounds, pound force and pound mass.  I had only heard of pounds as a measure of force, and did not know they were officially recognized as a measure of mass as well.  Those tricky pounds.

Huh, so I guess PSI would be "pounds force"? And you're forgetting the other two kinds of pounds: pounds-currency and pounds-forehead-because-all-recipes-are-in-bizarre-archaic-units. 

Yes, PSI would be pounds-force because pressure is a force distributed over area.  The unit of mass that was normally associated with "pounds-force" was a slug (which was the amount of mass that would accelerate at 1 ft per second squared when 1 pound of force was applied).  So, I suppose we could talk about how many slugs we should put on our cheese?  Hmmmm, perhaps not. 

- Jeff