License Plates - what they teach me about seeing words

NOTKENS

What do you see?

At first, I thought it was "no tokens."  Someone really passionate against the proposed slots bill here in Maryland.

But then I realized it was probably "Not Ken's."  (I figured it was Ken's wife's car, but Ken was driving.  Well, I did see this at the gas station, so maybe Ken was just being nice and getting gas in his wife's car.)

It's a bit like that exercise - what two words do you see in "NOWHERE"?

Either "no where" or "now here."

What I found interesting about this was how my brain broke up the string of words.  I saw "no" before I saw "not."

Comments

[Beverly]

mmmm...I saw one word pronounced NOT-KINS with an emphasis on the T. I assumed it was a foreign word and I was going to learn about it as I kept reading. I saw it exactly as it appeared! Wonder what that means? ;)