Today's fun random discovery:

"Some words in English use (capital) letters to describe the shape of the object to which they refer: A-frame, C-clamp, I-beam, O-ring, T-shirt, T-intersection, T-bone, U-turn, V-neck [...]"

How about Chinese?

chinese.stackexchange.com/ques

(Found via twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/ with another nice example.)

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Amusingly, I-beam works only in serifed fonts.

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