Crossword-Solution: APA 3 letters, 89 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Ward of Serampore is unable to quote the names of more than nine out of the eighteen, namely: Sanskrit, Prakrit, Naga, Paisacha, Gandharba, Rakshasa, Ardhamagadi, Apa, and Guhyaka--most of them being the languages of different orders of fabulous beings.

These were originally invented in an SF fanzine called APA-L and imported to BIX by one of the earliest users.

APA! he was a great man here in these MOTU (islands), although he fled from prison in your land; and when he stepped on the beach the marks of the iron bands that had once been round his ankles were yet red to the sight.

The phrase _apa? ?e??µe?a_--literally, _once spoken_--may be traced back, I think, to the Alexandrian grammarians, centuries before our era, who invented it to describe those words which they observed to occur once, and _only once_, in any author or literature.

The list of _apa? ?e??µe?a_--that is, words used once and _only once_--in Shakespeare is surprisingly long.