• Acamon@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    In what sense is it the first letter of the English lexicon? Lexicon ≠ alphabet

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        6 days ago

        Yeah, but it isn’t impressive avoiding a letter if you can use any word you want, and it doesnt matter what it means. “Without employing the second most frequent letter of English.” would make sense or “the vowel which is commonly listed first” or some sort of thing. I suspect they just didn’t know what lexicon meant and thought it sounded smart.