Word

on Mar 22nd 2001, 02:07:31, Natasha Jordan wrote the following about

word

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«

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And how much courage.

The >>Word of the Day<< today over at dictionary.com is >>oblation<<.

>>Oblation<< comes from the past participle form of the Latin verb* >>offerre<< meaning >>to bring<<.

So, an oblation is an offering or a gift.

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* A Latin verb is traditionally cited by giving four forms, in this case: offero, offerre, obtuli, oblatum.

The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

“Be careful what you say—you may have to eat your words.”

I don’t think so much about eating my words as about wearing them. When someone sees me, the words come back to haunt like a miasma around me. No matter how colourful my dress, bad words turn everything grey and muddy brown.

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

There is a purity in words that cannot be sullied by their use.

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

Spaces define which letters to together to make up a word.

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

... words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe...

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)