The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 32, July 24, 2005, Article 33

GEORGE KOLBE, CHAMPION OF THE 1ST AMENDMENT

George Kolbe writes: "With regard to the frequent misspelling
of "numismatic," all of us have also heard the word mispronounced
innumerable times, even from those within the fold. It's a lousy
word in other respects too. When I first rented offices in 1978 at
the Santora Building in Santa Ana, California, I recall a conversation
with the leasing agent after I had explained that I bought and sold
numismatic books. With a worried though man-of-the-world,
wink wink, air, he inquired in a low conspiratorial voice, "you'
don't mean, uh, 'dirty' books, do you?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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