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 ...

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Four-letter words are not in short supply, as you know when you stub your toe. But one-letter words? What are there — two or three of them? Try 1,000, says Craig Conley, author of “One-Letter Words: A ...