Before we discuss the topic of the world’s largest “M”, we’d like to give you some stats about the letter M.  Fun facts, if you will. It proudly begins powerful words like: mighty, magnificent and majestic. It is the 14th most used letter in the English alphabet, and the 13th in sequential order.  It’s been said that a person cannot say this letter without their top and bottom lips touching … even when ventriloquists say a word that contains an “M”, they often substitute the “ng” sound (or employ some other work-around) so they won’t have to touch their lips together.   Of course, we are talking about the letter “M”.  Here in the Tri-State area there is a memorable monument that uses this letter in perhaps the Most Meaningful way. On the slopes of the Platte Mound near Platteville, WI the world’s largest “M” can be seen. It originally came about in 1936 when two [...]