Tag: a
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Three Little Words: A, I, O
Recently I wrote about the word a, some features of which fascinate me. One point I neglected to mention: Alphabetically, it’s the very first single-letter word in English. Which raises a question. (I still can’t bring myself to say “begs a question”, even though descriptive lexicons now sanction this usage.) Said question is, how many…
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Two Words: A & Apart
The word “a” has several notable features. It’s classified grammatically as an indefinite article. This means it refers to something of which there can be more than one. For example, we’d speak of “a” tall building because there are lots of tall buildings. But we’d say Burj Khalifa (in Dubai) is currently “the” world’s tallest…