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“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.

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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]

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.

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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

The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)