Word

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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?

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.

“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.

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!!

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

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

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

I think that Word is one of these strange softwares that can do anything except what you think it can do. It's not possible to write with this thing, but you can spend your day goofing with toolbars or including all types of spreadsheets or multimedia or even use it as the worst HTML-Editor ever.

I prefer ASCII, really.

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.

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

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

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

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

(Mark Twain)

Words beginning with the »sn« sound in English are often unpleasant: snide, snob, snigger, sneer, snicker, snub, snert, snotty, snippy, snit, snarl, snore, sneak, snag. »Snow« is a word over which there is debate and even an annual change of heart. The first snowfall is almost always welcomed. Christmas snow is considered magical. But too much of a good thing for too long and March blizzards push »snow« into line with the rest of the »sn« words.