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.

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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

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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

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

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.

Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?

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

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

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

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

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

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

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

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

There is a purity in words that cannot be sullied by their use.