Word

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.

My favourite word in the English language is »language«. However, if you gave me a slightly larger set of words to choose from I might have more difficulty expressing a preference.

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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

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

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

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.

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 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!!

»Therefore« is a word the poet must not know.

(Andre Gide)

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.

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

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

The best way to discover new words is by reading a book.

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?