CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. 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 website is OneLetterWords.com.
The blogger at Grammar Tales recently encountered our One-Letter Words: A Dictionary at the University of Toronto library: "My first thought was that this must be a very short book."
"Somebody should write a book on 'Debunking the Debunkers,' somebody, that is, aside from the Freudians." —Ralph Tyler Flewelling, The Personalist, 1947, p. 435.
True or False: Vegetables are “as funny now as they have ever been, especially leeks”?
Clue: This is according to comic writer Terry Pratchett
Answer:False. Vegetables are “not as funny as they used so be, especially leeks.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Terry Pratchett, The Truth (2001), p. 106.