One-letter words

a dictionary

By Conley, Craig

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ISBN
978-0-06079-873-4
Publisher
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2005.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on August 8, 2005

Anyone who thinks the letter "a" alone can mean only one thing is sorely mistaken; Conley, a linguist, editor and textbook coauthor, enumerates at least fifty ways it has been used, including as a representation of "waking consciousness" and as the classification for the lightest weight of sandpaper. Conley, who has compiled several other quirky dictionaries, became a sort of cult hero when he put an early edition of this one online, where it garnered a huge following among people surfing the web for the odd and amusing. For each lett...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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