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One-letter Word
A one-letter word is a word composed of a single Letter case, letter. The application of this apparently simple definition is complex, due to the difficulty of defining the notions of word and letter. One-letter words have an uncertain status in language theory, Dictionary, dictionaries and social usage. They are sometimes used as book titles, and have been the subject of literary experimentation by Futurist, Minimalism, Minimalist and Oulipo, Ulypian poets. Meaningfulness as a concept Word For linguists, the term 'word' is far from unambiguous. It is defined graphically as a set of letters between two word dividers, with Jacques Anis adding that "the word thus seems to have a real existence only in writing, through the blanks that isolate it."(fr) Jacques Anis, "Pour une graphématique autonome", ''Langue française'', no 59, 1983 (DOI 10.3406/lfr.1983.5164). This pragmatic definition can already be found in Arnauld and Lancelot's ''Port-Royal Grammar'', published in 1660: "W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã… (Moskenes)
The letter Ã… (Ã¥ in lower case) represents various (although often very similar) phoneme, sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish alphabet, Danish, Swedish alphabet, Swedish, Norwegian alphabet, Norwegian, Finnish alphabet, Finnish, North Frisian language, North Frisian, Low German, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon alphabet, Walloon, Chamorro alphabet, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami language, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Pamirian languages, and Greenlandic alphabet, Greenlandic alphabets. Additionally, it is part of the alphabets used for some Alemannic German, Alemannic and Austro-Bavarian German dialects, dialects of German alphabet, German. Though Ã… is derived from A by adding an ring (diacritic), overring, it is typically considered a separate Letter (alphabet), letter. It developed as a form of semi-Ligature (typography), ligature of an ''A'' with a smaller ''o'' above it to denote a vowel le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
