Word

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!!

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

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

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.

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.

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

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

“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.

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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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]

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

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.

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.

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