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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 25533852, member: 4626"]The first actual woman to appear on a US coin was Queen Isabella, on the 1892 commemorative quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Susan B. Anthony was just the first actual woman to appear on a <i>circulating</i> US coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And are SBA dollars unique? Kind of weird to say that about a coin where over a billion of them were minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Oxford English Dictionary: unique means "being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else."</p><p><br /></p><p>Language evolves but if words don't have an agreed-upon meaning, how can we even meaningfully communicate?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah I know some people use "unique" to mean "unusual." Some people also use "literally" to mean "figuratively" instead of the opposite of "figuratively." Doesn't mean I have to accept that as a valid meaning. I know I only get one vote out of the millions of English speakers as to how the language is used, but I'm sticking to it. Someone has to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 25533852, member: 4626"]The first actual woman to appear on a US coin was Queen Isabella, on the 1892 commemorative quarter. Susan B. Anthony was just the first actual woman to appear on a [I]circulating[/I] US coin. And are SBA dollars unique? Kind of weird to say that about a coin where over a billion of them were minted. According to Oxford English Dictionary: unique means "being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else." Language evolves but if words don't have an agreed-upon meaning, how can we even meaningfully communicate? Yeah I know some people use "unique" to mean "unusual." Some people also use "literally" to mean "figuratively" instead of the opposite of "figuratively." Doesn't mean I have to accept that as a valid meaning. I know I only get one vote out of the millions of English speakers as to how the language is used, but I'm sticking to it. Someone has to.[/QUOTE]
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