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)
“And whose word do you think they’re going to believe. Or let me put it this way—whose word do you think they’re going to accept?”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“And no word can be spoken of which the sense
Does not accuse and contradict at once.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)