Word

We had words. Each and every evening.

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

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

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!!

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.

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

»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«


There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.


»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«


 – Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
 – The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain [1952], st. I

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.

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

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.

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

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)

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

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

(Mark Twain)

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

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions