I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.