Word

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

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

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

Isn't it weird that words work as well as they do? Think about it.

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.

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?

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

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.

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)

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


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

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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]

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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