Words similar to one-letter
Example sentences for: one-letter
How can you use “one-letter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
We could then stop asking the L-question : what is the future of the one-letter word?
One-letter words are proliferating despite the limits of our alphabet and the possibility of misunderstandings arising from multiple meanings.
Below are the words and meanings noted since an earlier account of new one-letter words in the Summer, 1987, issue of VERBATIM.
Thus we now have the big A as well as the A-word and the M-question as well as the M-word . Perhaps we shall see such forms as the little A , the new A , or the A-option . If these variants prove productive, the lexicon of one-letter words could “spread like wild flowers,” as Sam Goldwyn once said.
(The Oxford English Dictionary devotes twenty-one pages to set ). Another strategy often used to assure comprehension is to use a one-letter word and then to follow it with the meaning intended.