2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Pinback Buttons: Kudos!
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US #5923
2024 Kudos! – Pinback Buttons
• One of 10 stamps commemorating popular and colorful pinback buttons
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Pinback Buttons
Value: 73¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: August 15, 2024
First Day City: Hartford, Connecticut
Quantity Issued: 35,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Flexographic
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III, Spot Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the way pinback buttons have been used for decades to send messages, decorate clothing, raise awareness, and more.
About the stamp design: Pictures a typographic design by artists at DKNG Studios featuring the word “Kudos!”
Special design details: The round shape of the stamp, along with its shadowing and reflection effects, gives it the illusion of being three-dimensional.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Great American Stamp Show in Hartford, Connecticut.
About the Pinback Buttons set: Includes 10 stamps with typographic designs by 10 different artists in their own styles, each with a single word as the main element of the design. Artists include: Don Clark (Smile), Tré Seals (Hello!), Jay Fletcher (Peace), Juan Carlos Pagan (Love), Gia Graham (Fun), Jeff Rogers (Sweet), Ryan Feerer (Yes!), Lisa Congdon (Cheers!), DKNG Studios (Kudos!), and Gina Triplett (Happy).
History the stamp represents: It has been estimated that up to 150,000 words in the English language were taken from Ancient Greek. That amounts to about 30% of the English language! Among the words we’ve taken directly from the Greek language is “kudos.”
To the ancient Greeks, kudos meant “That which is heard of,” and was used to acknowledge glory, fame, and honor. Greek myths told tales of kudos being given to the brave warriors and heroes who claimed victory on the battlefield. For example, famed poet Homer referenced kudos in the Iliad, as an honor awarded by the gods for triumph in battle.
By the late 1700s, kudos was heard around English-speaking universities, where Greek was frequently taught. It was first recognized as an English word in 1831, used as a noun to bestow praise or acclaim. It gained prominence through literature and by the early 1900s, kudos was part of our national vocabulary.
Around the 1940s, “kudo” in the singular form became common, but, in Greek, kudos is already singular. Grammar experts consider this a back formation – the creation of a new word from the misunderstanding of an existing word. Several common words we use today were created in this way. It is considered acceptable to use the singular version. So however you use it, kudos, or kudo, to you!
US #5923
2024 Kudos! – Pinback Buttons
• One of 10 stamps commemorating popular and colorful pinback buttons
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Pinback Buttons
Value: 73¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: August 15, 2024
First Day City: Hartford, Connecticut
Quantity Issued: 35,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Flexographic
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III, Spot Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the way pinback buttons have been used for decades to send messages, decorate clothing, raise awareness, and more.
About the stamp design: Pictures a typographic design by artists at DKNG Studios featuring the word “Kudos!”
Special design details: The round shape of the stamp, along with its shadowing and reflection effects, gives it the illusion of being three-dimensional.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Great American Stamp Show in Hartford, Connecticut.
About the Pinback Buttons set: Includes 10 stamps with typographic designs by 10 different artists in their own styles, each with a single word as the main element of the design. Artists include: Don Clark (Smile), Tré Seals (Hello!), Jay Fletcher (Peace), Juan Carlos Pagan (Love), Gia Graham (Fun), Jeff Rogers (Sweet), Ryan Feerer (Yes!), Lisa Congdon (Cheers!), DKNG Studios (Kudos!), and Gina Triplett (Happy).
History the stamp represents: It has been estimated that up to 150,000 words in the English language were taken from Ancient Greek. That amounts to about 30% of the English language! Among the words we’ve taken directly from the Greek language is “kudos.”
To the ancient Greeks, kudos meant “That which is heard of,” and was used to acknowledge glory, fame, and honor. Greek myths told tales of kudos being given to the brave warriors and heroes who claimed victory on the battlefield. For example, famed poet Homer referenced kudos in the Iliad, as an honor awarded by the gods for triumph in battle.
By the late 1700s, kudos was heard around English-speaking universities, where Greek was frequently taught. It was first recognized as an English word in 1831, used as a noun to bestow praise or acclaim. It gained prominence through literature and by the early 1900s, kudos was part of our national vocabulary.
Around the 1940s, “kudo” in the singular form became common, but, in Greek, kudos is already singular. Grammar experts consider this a back formation – the creation of a new word from the misunderstanding of an existing word. Several common words we use today were created in this way. It is considered acceptable to use the singular version. So however you use it, kudos, or kudo, to you!