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The content of a simple idea i is then the singleton

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  1. noun The ninth letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. noun Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter i.
  3. noun The ninth in a series.

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  • Here's a picture of Jack's great-grandfather. and this i is his grandfather. —  Texas Lawman
  • Had I written the word for him in Amtorian he would have pronounced it ah-vy-ah-tore, as they cannot form the long a and short o sounds, and their i is always long. —  Pirates of Venus
  • The content of a simple idea i is then the singleton —  Slices of Matisse
  • Again, take the Hawaiian word i'a_, fish--Maori, ika_; Malay, ikan_; Java iwa_; Bouton, ikani (Edward Tregear: The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary). —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
  • Thus triunfo and chulo assonate in ú-o; cuido and bendito assonate in i-o There are twenty possible assonances in Spanish i a e, á-o, é-a, é-e, é-o, ó-a, ó-e, ó-o, i-a, i-e, i-o, ú-a, ú-e, ú-o Words that have in the final unaccented syllable i or u, not in diphthongs, are considered for purposes of assonance as if ending in e or o respectively. —  Legends, Tales and Poems
 

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  1. from Middle English i = Icelandic ī, reduced form of in: see in, and cf. a, reduced form of an, on, and a, reduced form of an.
 

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