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The Concise Oxford Dictionary contains three one-letter words that are neither nouns nor abbreviations; what are they?



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Answer: a, I, and O

I is a pronoun; O is an interjection which is prefixed to a name when invoking it (e.g., "O God!); a is the indefinite article.

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