Word

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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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

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

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

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

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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