Six-Word Memoirs Six-Word Memoirs Six-Word Memoirs is a project founded by the U.S.-based online storytelling magazine "Smith Magazine." Like that publication, "Six-Word Memoirs" seek to provide a platform for storytelling in all its forms. "Smith" was founded January 6, 2006, by Larry Smith and Tim Barko. Taking a cue from novelist Ernest Hemingway, who, according to literary legend, was once challenged to write a short story in only six words, "Smith Magazine" set out to do the same. Hemingway's six-word story read: “.” In November 2006, "Smith's" editors Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser gave the six-word story a personal twist, asking "Smith"
Three letter rule and "ka". Carney calls such words "exceptions which prove the rule, clearly marked as exotic by the spelling". Three letter rule In English spelling, the three letter rule (or short word rule) is the observation that one- and two-letter words tend to be function words such as "I", "at", "he", "if", "of", "or", etc. As a consequence of the rule, "content words" tend to have at least three letters. In particular, content words containing fewer than three phonemes may be augmented with letters which are phonetically redundant, such as "ebb, "add, "egg, "inn, "bee, "awe, "buy", "owe", etc. Many content