Glomming:
Coin Connoisseurship

Most beautiful woman on a coin
(Queen Victoria on a godless florin)

Ugliest woman on a coin
(Mad-USA on Ancient Greek Necropolis semidrachm)

   
 

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
...and what is a "ghoti" and would you eat it?

 

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Glomming: Coin Connoisseurship
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