Word

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

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

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

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!!

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.

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

We had words. Each and every evening.

Sometimes, when he stopped for beer after work, we had dishes and pots and food, too.

Spaces define which letters to together to make up a word.

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

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

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

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

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.

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

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

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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