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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?
'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'
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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.)
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
Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:
»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«
Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?
A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.
Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.
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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
Isn't it weird that words work as well as they do? Think about it.
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