From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Dec 19 1999 - 01:35:55 MST
At 12:19 AM 18/12/99 -0800, "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
wrote:
>Not very arguably. A'a might be the shortest _noun_ (it's a Hawai'ian word,
>originally), but I and a are both shorter English words.
My noun < ai > (pronounced `I'), a naturalised version of `AI', is a
candidate, but not, perhaps, its complement < hu > (pronounced `hew'), an
equivalent abbreviation for `human' [from THE WHITE ABACUS].
Damien Broderick
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