One Letter Words Knowledge Cards Deck [Paperback]

Pomegranate (Author), Craig Conley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2006

One-letter words? How many can there be? Certainly "a" and "I" are obvious, but isn't that about it? Well, no, to put it in a two-letter word. In fact, there are hundreds of one-letter words, used in science, literature, sports, music, medicine, economics, and popular culture. For instance, what letter means "the color black"? Which one means "exactly"? Surely you know what letter represents a strikeout in baseball. Want more? This deck presents sixty-four of the English language's smallest words on forty-eight cards, with definitions on the front and answers on the back. Author Craig Conley is the creator of the book One-Letter Words: A Dictionary (HarperCollins, 2005).

Size: 3 1/4 x 4 inches.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Pomegranate (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764936166
• ISBN-13: 978-0764936166
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,199,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

CRAIG CONLEY has been called "a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure" (Clint Marsh), "America's most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation" (Encarta), a "language fanatic" (Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams), and a "cult hero" (Publisher's Weekly). An eccentric scholar, Conley's ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the "virtual pet" in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular "Tamagotchi" in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley's ONE-LETTER WORDS: A DICTIONARY is published by HarperCollins, and his MAGIC WORDS: A DICTIONARY is published by Weiser Books.