The Word
Chinese de εΎ· is an ancient and linguistically complex word. The following analyzes it in terms of semantics, graphics, and etymology.
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Famous quotes containing the words the word and/or word:
“Please stop using the word “Negro.”... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
“Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader
who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)