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{{quote|"You write a book, you get to the end, and then it's like—meh, I'll just pick one of the letters of the alphabet for the title."|'''[[Time (magazine)|TIME.com]]''', [http://entertainment.time.com/2011/01/24/top-10-books-with-one-letter-titles/ Top 10 Books with One-Letter Titles]}}
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== 26 Latin Alphabet Examples ==
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* ''K'' is a record, Kula Shaker twirled.
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* [[L: Change the World|L]] titles a film, while [[Death Note|Changing The World]].
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* ''O'' is ''[[Othello]]'', except {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|in high school!]]}}
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* P was [[Johnny Depp]]'s band. Pretty cool.
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* ''[[Z (film)|Z]]'' ends our list with a big junta ban.
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More examples below, except not in verse. And because they are not, it is so much [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion|better.]]
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* ''a'': A tripped-out conversation novel by [[Andy Warhol]].
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** A band who is known for their song ''Nothing''.
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** A song by [[Knorkator]] which consists of the four verses "A", "A", "A", and "A".
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*** [[The Clock Crew]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100915210350/http://www.clockcrew.cc/clockopedia/alphabet_movies has covered them all]. The most notable one though is ''B'', the very flash movie responsible for the Clock Crew's existence in the first place.
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* Do not ever mention [[Image Boards|/b/]].
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* ''C'': A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
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** An anime, fully titled ''[[C (TV series)|C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control]]''.
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* ''D'': A horror game released in 1995.
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* ''G'': John Berger's Booker Prize winning novel about "G", a Don Juan-like figure.
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* ''I'': A song by [[Black Sabbath]]. [[Kiss]] also did one, but the fans [[Fanon Discontinuity|won't admit it.]] Neither will the band, who even [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B72y_iGy3vA forgot how to sing it.]
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** Also a rather good EP by [[Meshuggah]].
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** And a side project of [[Immortal]]'s frontman Abbath.
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* ''i'': A news-digest of ''[[British Newspapers|The Independent]]''.
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* ''L'' is a South Korean movie.
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* ''M'' is a non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
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* ''N'' is also a short story by [[Stephen King]].
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** Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
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* ''[["O" (theatre)|O]]'': the title of Oprah's magazine, a [[wikipedia:Cirque du Soleil|Cirque du Soleil]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022113754/http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/o/default.aspx show], and an anonymously penned novel about the 2008 presidential election.
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** 'O' is also the title of a 2006 Eiko Shimamiya Album
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* ''[[Q]]'' was an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. ''q'' (note the capitalization) is the same show on the same network, but hosted by <s>Shad</s> <s>Candy Palmater</s> Tom Power.
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* ''S'' is the US title of a [[Boys Love Genre]] [[Light Novel]] [[Esu|series]]
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* ''S.'' is a 1988 [[John Updike]] novel
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* ''U'': One of the songs by [[W.A.S.P.]]
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* ''W'': Georges Perec's memoir of his time as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
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* ''[[X]]'': a science fiction space simulator series by Egosoft.
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** An episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.
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** A [[Los Angeles]] Punk Rock band from [[The Eighties]].
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** A [[Def Leppard]] album.
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** An instrumental song by the Red Crayola.
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** Also how [[X Japan]] called themselves before going international.
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* ''[[Z (video game)|Z]]'': A real-time strategy game by the Bitmap Brothers.
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** There's also a Polish novel titled ''Z.'', with the dot.<ref>By Mieczysław Porębski</ref>
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"You write a book, you get to the end, and then it's like—meh, I'll just pick one of the letters of the alphabet for the title."
—TIME.com, Top 10 Books with One-Letter Titles

Related to One-Letter Name, works with a One-Letter Title are exactly that: works that are titled with a single letter, of whatever script.

See also Short Titles and Letter Motif.

Examples of One-Letter Title include:

26 Latin Alphabet Examples

  • A is an album, a Jethro Tull one.
  • b is a tabloid by the Baltimore Sun.
  • C is a language, that's good with runtime.
  • D is a Bollywood film about crime.
  • E! is a network for gossip when bored.
  • F is a series of trucks made by Ford.
  • G. is a movie, one that's quite "grand".
  • H. is a hit by a "Tool"-ish rock band.
  • i was a network, now ION TV.
  • j is a label that's owned by Sony.
  • K is a record, Kula Shaker twirled.
  • L titles a film, while Changing The World.
  • M is a picture that stars Peter Lorre.
  • N is a game where a ninja gets glory.
  • O is Othello, except in high school!
  • P was Johnny Depp's band. Pretty cool.
  • Q is a flick about a flying snake.
  • R. is a CD that Kelly did make.
  • S was a short-living group of K-Pop.
  • T is a Mister that cancer can't stop.
  • U is by Pearl Jam, released in 'nine-eight.
  • V has an alien metaphor. Great.
  • W.'s a biopic of George Bush Two.
  • X is a manga that CLAMP did debut.
  • Y is a comic about the Last Man.
  • Z ends our list with a big junta ban.

More examples below, except not in verse. And because they are not, it is so much better.

More Latin Alphabet Examples

  • a: A tripped-out conversation novel by Andy Warhol.
    • A band who is known for their song Nothing.
    • A song by Knorkator which consists of the four verses "A", "A", "A", and "A".
  • Do not ever mention /b/.
  • C: A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
  • D: A horror game released in 1995.
    • A French BD about vampires (guess what the D stands for).
  • G: John Berger's Booker Prize winning novel about "G", a Don Juan-like figure.
  • H: An Elizabeth Shepard found-document novel about an autistic boy's letters from summer camp.
  • I: A song by Black Sabbath. Kiss also did one, but the fans won't admit it. Neither will the band, who even forgot how to sing it.
  • i: A news-digest of The Independent.
    • Also, an album by The Magnetic Fields, where appropriately enough, all the song titles start with "I".
  • L is a South Korean movie.
  • M is a non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
  • N is also a short story by Stephen King.
    • Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
  • O: the title of Oprah's magazine, a Cirque du Soleil show, and an anonymously penned novel about the 2008 presidential election.
    • 'O' is also the title of a 2006 Eiko Shimamiya Album
  • Q was an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. q (note the capitalization) is the same show on the same network, but hosted by Shad Candy Palmater Tom Power.
  • S is the US title of a Boys Love Genre Light Novel series
  • S. is a 1988 John Updike novel
  • U: One of the songs by W.A.S.P.
  • V is also Thomas Pynchon's first novel, and despite all the other weird things in it, it is decidedly alien-free.
  • W: Georges Perec's memoir of his time as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
  • X: a science fiction space simulator series by Egosoft.
  • Y: The first album by British band The Pop Group.
  • Z: A real-time strategy game by the Bitmap Brothers.
    • There's also a Polish novel titled Z., with the dot.[1]

Non-Latin Alphabet Examples

  • π.
  • ? is an episode in the second season of Lost.
  • 9
  • Ё (Yo) is a Russian planned hybrid electric car.
  • In-universe example: in a soviet comedy "Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика" (Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures), Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains trio call the planned operation"Y": "so that nobody would guess it".
  1. ↑ By Mieczysław Porębski
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