Weird Words: Specie

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Specie

Noun

• Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.

Used in a sentence:

• He was amazed that these aliens would use something as precious as platinum as specie and as their lowest value coin no less!

Source: Wiktionary

Commentary:

Specie is actually really close to the word species and they both have the same root word in Latin. When used in Latin it means type or kind, however English has the extra meaning of referring to coinage that has actual intrinsic value and I felt that the meaning alone made it worthy of being a weird word. Okay not myself, per say, but one of my writing group, Marie. Marie has no particular webpage to link to, so in an effort to continue The Singularity’s tradition of somewhat selling out, let me promote Marie’s soon to be spectacular book that hasn’t even finished being written yet and has no title! Okay yes that was a bit of a failure as well but I’ll keep you all updated!

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