Word

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.

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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

»Therefore« is a word the poet must not know.

(Andre Gide)

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

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?