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«I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
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abandons, accents, Bad Company, crannies, cranny, dreamer, invert, inverted, meanings, move around, nook, nooks, nooks and crannies, overload, overloaded, prevents, stressed, syllables, wander
«Love is not singular except in syllable.»
«A one-syllable word sounds better with Inc. A longer word has better rhythm with Corporation.»
«Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS! of DIRE! ImPORTance!»
«DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Words
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abbreviation, complex, DNA, string, syllables
«FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Finance
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accent, discoveries, finance, finances, Managing, possessions, pronunciation, revenues, syllable, syllables
«Syllables govern the world.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Words
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govern, syllables
«I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Advice,
World
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earnest, seniors, syllable, syllables, Thirty Years
«A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses»
«Philologists who chase / A panting syllable through time and space, / Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, / To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Gaul, Greece, panting, syllable, syllables, time and space
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