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.

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.

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.

'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'

Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.

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

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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]

Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?

Isn't it weird that words work as well as they do? Think about it.

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

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.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

(John F. Kennedy)

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

We had words. Each and every evening.

Sometimes, when he stopped for beer after work, we had dishes and pots and food, too.