Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Weeks A(1*-2)

Weeks A - January 11 - 24.

A day behind, but ah well. This is the start of my bi-weekly project, which could mean either two times a week or every two weeks because Webster allows for contradictory definitions to the same word, so we'll go with fortnightly.

Fortnights start on Monday and end on Sunday of the following week.

For the next fortnight my life will revolve around the letter A, as much as I can possibly force it. So I should probably get to know this letter a little better.


Here's a capital (or uppercase, for you communists) letter A: A.
Here's a miniscule (or lowercase) letter A: a.

The plural of a is aes, a's or As, the possessive is A's as in, "these are A's weeks".
Some people/fonts draw lowerclass aes with a hat, like this font: a (Trebuchet) others do not, but none of those fonts are available to me at this time you'll have to imagine it. If you're bad at imagining, grab a piece of paper and write an a, lowercase. Odds are you do not put hats on your aes unless they are going out for a formal evening or you are a 11 year old girl attempting to craft an identity through 'cutesy' or 'unique' handwriting. If you are, stop it. The typographical term for the A's hat is 'double-story', leaving the hatless a to be called a single-story a, but no one is living in these aes or riding them around London so hat it is.

That's all for now about the letter A. More later. SPOILER ALERT: It's a word too!

*not the steak sauce, though I probably should stock up.

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