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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.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

(Mark Twain)

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

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

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 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.

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

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.)

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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 – Horace (65-8 B.C.)
 – Epistles, bk. I, epistle xviii, l. 71

The best way to discover new words is by reading a book.

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

We had words. Each and every evening.

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