Word

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

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 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.

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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

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 – Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
 – An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt. II, l. 109

“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.

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 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?

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

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

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

(Mark Twain)

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

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

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.