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            St Michael's and All Angels Churchyard, Alberbury, Shropshire. In memory of Sir Baldwyn Leighton, 8th Baronet, an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1877 to 1885.

What's interesting is that all the letter T's have been replaced by a horizontally flipped or mirrored number 5. 

Is it something from the 19th century preceeding 'Leet' or 'Leetspeak', supposedly developed in the 1980's where numbers and symbols were used to replace letters ? Had they been reading Numerorum Mysteria a treatise on numerology by Pietro Bongo written only three centuries earlier ? Or was it done just to look unique or unusual ?

Despite there being only one 'rogue' letter in a word, the flipped 5 does make the words hard to comprehend on first reading. Unlike just jumbling the order of letters within each word where it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

The mind boggles.

Taken on: February 5, 2021

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Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM3, f/3.5, 1/640 sec, 105mm, ISO 640 (more info) (hide info)

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Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	640
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
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