Talk:List of one-letter English words
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I really think that the contraction "masturb8" is not suitable and unnecessary, considering the many other examples using "8".
—Wereon 19:56, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
What posible situation would make one write copul8? Surly anyone who would use the word copulate would not use text abreviations. Me lkjhgfdsa 12:50, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
..what about "h" for heroine?
Can someone explain what 4milk means?
This reminds me of the Two ronnies sketch set in a "Swedish" restaurant.
- CUSTOMER. L.O.
- WAITER. L.O.
- CUSTOMER. R.U.B.C.
- WAITER. S.V.R.B.C.
- (Enter WAITRESS carrying a large ham on a silver salver.)
- WAITRESS. L.O.
- WAITER. L.O.
- CUSTOMER. L.O.
- WAITRESS. L.O.
- (Exit WAITRESS into kitchen.)
- CUSTOMER. F.U.N.E.X.
- WAITER. S.V.F.X.
- CUSTOMER. F.U.N.E.M.
- WAITER. 9.
- CUSTOMER. I.F.C.D.M.
- WAITER. (insistently) V.F.N.10.E.M.
- (Enter WAITRESS from kitchen still carrying the ham.)
- WAITRESS. A. V.F.M.
- CUSTOMER. R.
- WAITER. O.
- WAITRESS. C. D.M. (Exit WAITRESS into kitchen.)
- WAITER. O.S. V.F.M.
- CUSTOMER. O.K. M.N.X.
- WAITER. M.N.X. (He writes it in his pad.)
- CUSTOMER. F.U.N.E.T.
- WAITER. 1 T.
- CUSTOMER. 1 T.
- WAITER. O.K. M.X.N.T.
- (He finishes writing it in his pad with a flourish and calls at the kitchen door.)
- WAITER. M.X.N.T.4.1.
- (Enter WAITRESS from kitchen.)
- WAITRESS. V.F.N.10.E.X.
- CUSTOMER. U.Z.U.F.X.
- WAITER. Y.F.N.U.N.E.X.
- WAITRESS. (sheepishly) I.F.E.10.M.
- WAITER. S.I.L.L.Y. C.O.W. (Exit WAITER.) I think this was only in the subtitles
--Wereon 19:56, 18 May 2004 (UTC)--Wereon 19:56, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Erroneous or not? T's, I's, Z's etc
Removed "erroneously" from the section on letters as words - because the next sentence mentions "dotting i's and crossing t's". If it's erroneous, don't use it. But let's see a source saying this is erroneous... after all, such behavior has more clarity than just adding an "s" in some situations (compare Is to I's, ss to s's...) --AlanH 23:43, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
- I suggested that the habit of putting an apostrophe to indicate a plural in these cases is erroneous, and would defend that description of the practice. I agree that it would have been more consistent of me to have changed the "dotting i's and crossing t's" sentence.
- The Guardian newspaper style guide suggests "cap up single letters, eg there are six As in taramasalata".
- The OED describes the following functions of an apostrophe: "1 punctuation mark (') indicating: a omission of letters or numbers (e.g. can't; May '92). b possessive case (e.g. Harry's book; boys' coats). 2 exclamatory passage addressed to (an often absent) person or thing." It does not suggest that an apostrophe is properly used to refer to the plural of a letter. Kevin McE 00:43, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- AFAIK apostrophe is only used if original "word" ends in consonant but the pronounciation ends in a vowel... So g's is correct but i's isn't... Monni 08:34, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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- This is all discussed at apostrophe. The OED is a dictionary, not a grammar or style guide; for example, its definition of full stop does not mention its use in truncations or initialisms [s.v. "full"]:
- 18. full stop. a. The end of a sentence; the single point or dot used to mark this; a period, full point.
- On the other hand, under "I" [the letter] it has:
- I. 1. Illustrations of the literary use of the letter: a. simply. (The plural appears as Is, I's, is, i's.) I per se, or I per se I, the letter I by itself forming a word, esp. the pronoun I. Also fig. esp. in dot of (on) an i, to put the dots on the i's, to dot the (one's) i's
- This is all discussed at apostrophe. The OED is a dictionary, not a grammar or style guide; for example, its definition of full stop does not mention its use in truncations or initialisms [s.v. "full"]:
