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Quotes on words |
| When I use a word … it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less’ Humpty Dumpty |
| A word has the meaning someone has given to it: Wittgenstein, 1965 |
| A word, then, is a form which does not consist of (two or more) lesser free forms; in brief a word is a minimum free form Bloomfield p.178 |
| People use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts Voltaire |
| The only sort of four-letter words I use are ‘good’, ‘love’, ‘warm’ and ‘kind’ Catherine Cookson |
| The world is but a word Timon of Athens |
| Ideas are enclosed and almost bound in words like precious stones in a ring. Leopardi |
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Words words words . They’re all we have to go on. Stoppard R&C |
| I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven. Dr Johnson 1755 |
| All words are prejudices. Nietzsche |
| Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai Stevenson |
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. Burt Bacharach |
| ‘sequence of letters without any spaces’ Hurford p.247 ‘item listed separately in an ordinary dictionary’ Hurford p 248 |
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Maybe
in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind.
Basically, it’s made up of two separate words--“mank” and “ind.”
What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is
mankind. |
| A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. Burt Bacharach |