Get Out Youir Piggy Bank

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(05-20-2019 07:29 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  Although it's completely worthless (beyond it's face value of 5 cents), I found this Buffalo Nickel in circulation in 2012. By the looks of it, it's never been out of circulation, which is supposed to be good luck. The last time I found one in circulation was in the late 1960's with my Dad. Still waiting on that good luck mess to show up....

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(05-20-2019 07:28 PM)Tom Bogar Wrote:  If this piques your interest, here's the link for more information on more coins (many of them Lincoln pennies): https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1408062258...edium=2012

Grammar kudos to Laurie. I'm so tired of seeing "peek" and "peak" in print for "pique."

She's also the "Comma Queen", Tom. Them old school teachers......
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Thanks, guys. I am not leaving this earth, however, until I teach Americans to not end sentences with "at" (as in "where's it at?). Every time my father would hear someone say that, he would mumble, "Behind the at." He has been dead for almost forty years, but I suspect he's rolling and tumbling in his grave over the almost constant use of that bad grammar now.

I also would like to eradicate the misuse of apostrophes. English was not my major in college, and I never taught English. However, I was raised in the same house with a father (high school diploma), mother (high school diploma), and a Victorian grandmother (6th grade education) who loved to read and were proud of the English language.

P.S. I have one bad habit that I need to correct, however. I use the southern dialect slang of "y'all..."