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We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

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 – Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
 – Sand and Foam [1926]

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.

Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.

I bought one of those Word-A-Day calendars to improve my vocabulary for college.

reify – to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.

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

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222

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

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

And then some more words come along and a paragraph is born.

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

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

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

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

The word on my mind right now is >>weekend<<. It's only a few hours away!

I can't wait to get away from this office!!