From: Elizabeth Childs (echilds@linex.com)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 11:42:43 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.
Here's a bunch more:
http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble/2letterwords.html
usable at Scrabble.
>
> 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
An ai is also a three-toed sloth.
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