Word

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222

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.

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

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!!

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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

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.

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.

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

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

The old folks say that the spoken word is the garment of the soul. What man of true wit would clothe his beloved in filth and tatters?

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

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