Word

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.

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

The >>Word of the Day<< today over at dictionary.com is >>oblation<<.

>>Oblation<< comes from the past participle form of the Latin verb* >>offerre<< meaning >>to bring<<.

So, an oblation is an offering or a gift.

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* A Latin verb is traditionally cited by giving four forms, in this case: offero, offerre, obtuli, oblatum.

I think that Word is one of these strange softwares that can do anything except what you think it can do. It's not possible to write with this thing, but you can spend your day goofing with toolbars or including all types of spreadsheets or multimedia or even use it as the worst HTML-Editor ever.

I prefer ASCII, really.

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.

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.

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.

... words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe...

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

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!!

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?

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)