Three articles by graduate source of scorn (8)
I believe the answer is:
anathema
'source of scorn' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'three articles by graduate' is the wordplay.
'three articles' means three replacements for 'article'.
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'article' becomes 'a' (English indefinite article).
'article' becomes 'the' (the definite article in English).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'graduate' becomes 'MA' (abbreviation for Master of Arts).
'an'+'a'+'the'+'ma'='ANATHEMA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anathema that I've seen before include "Accursed by the Church" , "thing we detest" , "person cannot stand" , "abhorrent" , "One hated" .)