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WOMEN'S RIGHTS
WONDER --- WOODS (THE) --- WORDS

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WOMEN'S RIGHTS

see: "EQUALITY"
see: "FEMINISM"
see: "WOMEN"S LIB"

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In the new code of laws which I suppose it
will be necessary for you to make I desire
you would remember the ladies and be
more generous and favorable to them
than your ancestors.
--Abigail Adams (1744—1818)
American first lady [1797—1801], the wife of
John Adams, second president of the United
States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams,
the sixth president of the United States.
In a letter to John Adams [31 March 1776].


Do not put such unlimited power into the hands
of the husbands. Remember all men would be
tyrants if they could. If particular care and
attention is not paid to the ladies we are
determined to forment a rebellion, and will
not hold ourselves bound by any laws in
which we have no voice, or representation.
--ibid.

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Men their rights and nothing more; women
their rights and nothing less.
--Susan B(rownwell) Anthony (1820—1906)
American crusader for the woman suffrage movement.
Motto of the women's suffrage newspaper "The Revolution" [1868].

Sensible and responsible women do not want
to vote. The relative positions to be assumed
by man and woman in the working out of our
civilization were assigned long ago by a higher
intelligence than ours.
--Grover Cleveland (1837—1908)
22nd [1885-1889] and 24th [1893—1897] President of the U.S..
In the "Ladies' Home Journal" [April 1905].

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between
the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is
wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human
improvement; and ... and it ought to be replaced by a principle of
perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side,
nor disability on the other.
--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.
_The Subjection of Women_, ch. I [1869]

Equality for women? That is madness. Women are our
property; we are not theirs. They give us children. . .
and belong to us as the fruit-bearing tree belongs to
the gardener.
--Napoleon I (1769—1821)
Emperor of France [1804—1815].
_In the Words of Napoleon_ p. 104,
tr. Daniel Savage Gray [1977]

The claim that American women are downtrodden
and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
--Phyllis Schlafly (1924— )
American author and antifeminist leader.
Quoted in "Ms." magazine [March 1974].

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak
or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's
Rights' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble
sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and
propiety. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious
that she cannot contain herself. God created men and women
different — then let them remain each in their own position.
--Queen Victoria (1819—1901)
Queen of the United Kingdom [1837—1901].
Memorandum on women's suffrage [29 May 1870].



WONDER

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see: "DISCOVERY"
see "KNOWLEDGE" for other related links


God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
"Light Shining Out of Darkness" [1779 hymn]

He who can no longer pause to wonder and
stand rapt in awe; is as good as dead; his
eyes are closed.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

The larger the island of knowledge, the
longer the shoreline of wonder.
--Ralph Washington Sockman (1889—1970)
American pastor of the United Methodist Christ Church
in New York City and radio personality [1928—1962].

Wisdom begins in wonder.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

I would rather have a mind opened by
wonder than one closed by belief.
--Gerry Spence

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I hope you never lose your sense of wonder.
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger.
May you never take one single breath for granted,
and God forbid, love ever leave you empty handed.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens.
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And if you get the chance to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance. I hope you dance.

--Lee Ann Womack
"I Hope You Dance"

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Click picture to ZOOM
WOODS (THE)

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Photograph: Kent Falls State Park,
Connecticut

see "NATURE" for related links

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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
[...]
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
--Robert Frost (1874—1963)
American poet.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [1923]


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
--Robert Frost (1874—1963)
American poet.
"The Road Not Taken" [1916]

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of
being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing
off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an
industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests
but to cut them down!
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be
very silent if no birds sang there except those
that sang best.
--Henry Van Dyke (1852—1933)
American clergyman, educator, and author.

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Here lies one Wood
Enclosed in Wood
One Wood within another.
One of these Woods is very good:
We cannot praise the other.
--Epitaph

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sylvan SIL-vuhn, adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to woods or forest regions.
2. Living or located in a wood or forest.
3. Abounding in forests or trees; wooded.



WORDS

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see "LANGUAGE" for related links
see "COMMUNICATION" for related links


When words become unclear, I shall focus with
photographs. When images become inadequate,
I shall be content with silence.
--Ansel Easton Adams (1902—1984)
American photographer.
In James R. Miller _Visions from Earth_, p. 10 [2004].

No man means all he says, and yet very few
say all they mean, for words are slippery
and thought is viscous.
--Henry Brooks Adams (1838—1918)
American historian & man of letters.
_The Education of Henry Adams_ [1907]

I have always been convinced, that the abuse of words
has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery,
of party, faction, and division of society.
--John Adams (1735—1826)
First VP and second President of the United States.
Letter to J.H. Tiffany [31 March 1819,
in _Works of John Adams_, vol. 10 [1856],
ed. by Charles Francis Adams.

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The
G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below
there is wasting his time.
--Isabel Allende (1942— )
Chilean writer.

The day of the jewelled epigram is passed and,
whether one likes it or not, one is moving into
the stern puritanical era of the four-letter word.
--Noλl Annan (1916—2000)
English historian and writer.
In the House of Lords [1966]; quoted in
George Greenfield _Scribblers for Bread_ [1989].

Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet.
(The pen worse than the sword.)
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621—1651], pt. II, sec. 2

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
--Samuel Butler (1612—1680)
English poet and satirist.
"Hudibras" [1663], pt. II [1664], canto II, l. 117

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Words fascinate me. They always have.
For me, browsing in a dictionary is like
being turned loose in a bank.
--Eddie Cantor (1882—1964)
American comedian, actor, singer, and songwriter.
_The Way I See It_ [1959]


Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
--Eddie Cantor (1882—1964)
American comedian, actor, singer, and songwriter.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [March 1934].

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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful
tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more
nor less.' "The question is,' said Alice, whether you *can* make
words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said
Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. 6 [1872]

It depends on what the meaning of the word "is"
is. If the--if he--if "is" means is and never
has been, that is not--that is one thing. If
it means there is none, that was a completely
true statement.
--Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (1946— )
American Democratic statesman and president [1993—2001].
(Grand jury testimony [17 August 1998].)

I like long and unusual words, and anybody who does not share
my tastes is not compelled to read me. Policemen and politicians are
under some obligation to make themselves comprehensible to the
intellectually stunted, but not I. Let my prose be tenebrous and
rebarbative; let my pennyworth of thought be muffled in gorgeous
habilements; lovers of Basic English will look to me in vain.
--Robertson Davies (1913—1995)
Canadian author and playwright.
_Marchbanks' Garland_

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is
the manipulation of words. If you can control
the meaning of words, you can control the
people who must use the words.
--Philip K. Dick (1928—1982)
American science fiction writer.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Little Dorrit_, bk. 2, ch. 5 [1857]

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Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavor, before he
allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct,
simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

This general principle may be translated into practical rules in the domain
of vocabulary as follows:

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched.
Prefer the concrete word to the abstract.
Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.
Prefer the simple word to the long.
Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

--Henry W. Fowler (1858—1933)
English schoolmaster and lexicographer.
_A Dictionary of Modern English Usage_ [1926]

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The finest words in the world are only vain
sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
--Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844—1924)
French novelist, man of letters, and winner of the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1921.

In the silence of night I have often wished for
just a few words of love from one man, rather
than the applause of thousands of people.
--Judy Garland [Frances Gumm] (1922—1969)
American motion-picture singer and actress.
In "The Book of Quotes," by Barbara Rowes [1979].

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A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a
day...30,000 to a man's 15,000. The wife replied, "The reason has to be
because we have to repeat everything to men...The husband then turned to
his wife and asked, "What?"

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Words are chameleons, which reflect the color
of their environment.
--Learned Hand (1872—1961)
American judge.
In "Commissioner v. National Carbide Corp." [1948].

Many people, of course, use "sentimentalism" as
a term of abuse for other people's decent feelings,
and "realism" as a disguise for their own brutality.
--G. H. Hardy (1877—1947)
British mathematician.
_A Mathematician's Apology_ [1940]

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows
how to combine them.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
[17 November 1847]

Words do not express thoughts very well. They
always become a little different immediately after
they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
--Hermann Hesse (1877—1962)
German novelist, poet, and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
_Siddhartha_ [1922]

The German people has the solemn intention
of living in peace and friendship with all civilized
nations and powers... And I regard the
maintenance of peace in Europe as especially
desirable .......The young Germany, that is led
by me and that finds its expression in the
National Socialist Movement, has only the most
heartfelt desire for an understanding with other
European nations.
--Adolf Hitler (1889—1945)
German dictator.
Letter to Hervι, published in
the Nazi Vφlkischer Beobachter [26 October 1930].

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging;
it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly
in color and content according to the circumstances
and the time in which it is used.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
In "Towne vs. Eisner" [7 January 1918].

And once sent out a word takes
wing beyond recall.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Epistles_

Summer afternoon--summer afternoon. . .
the two most beautiful words in the
English language.
--Henry James (1843—1916)
American novelist.
In Edith Wharton _A Backward Glance_ [1934].

Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have
said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get
the better of this by saying many things to please
him.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything
that they do not make clear.
--Joseph Joubert (1754—1824)
French philosopher.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the
assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
--John Maynard Keynes (1883—1946)
English economist.
"National Self-Sufficiency"
_New Statesman_ {British magazine} [15 July 1933]

Words, are, of course, the most powerful
drugs used by mankind.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
Speech [14 February 1923].

As honest words may not sound fine,
Fine words may not be honest ones.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power).

In my youth there were words you couldn't say
in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'.
--Tom Lehrer (1928— )
American songwriter and satirist.
Interview in "The Oldie" [1996].

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas
of any man I ever met.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].
On a lawyer colleague. In Anthony or Abraham Gross, ed.,
_Lincoln's Own Stories_ [1912], ch. 2.

Some people have a way with words.
Other people ... not have way.
--Steve Martin (1945— )
American comedian and actor.

I am a bear of very little brain, and long
words bother me.
--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_Winnie-the-Pooh_ [1926], Ch. 4

"There is a word in Newspeak," said Syme.
"I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak,
to quack like a duck. It is one of those
interesting words that have two contradictory
meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse;
applied to someone you agree with, it is
praise."
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1949] Ch. 1, Section V

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[On the most beautiful words in the English language:]
The ones I like . . . are 'cheque' and 'inclosed.'
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
Quoted in "N.Y. Herald Tribune" [12 December 1932].


[Upon being challenged to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence:]
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
Quoted in _The Algonquin Wits_ (ed.) Robert E. Drennan [1968].

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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful
image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They
shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not
yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to
be used.
--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.

But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here. In words, words.
Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of
us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an
understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of
things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably
translate them according to the conception of things each one of
you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we
never really do.
--Luigi Pirandello (1867—1936)
Italian dramatist and novelist awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934.
_Six Characters in Search of an Author_ [1921]

Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was
so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken,
but that after some time they thawed and became audible;
so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next
summer.
--Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?)
Greek philosopher and biographer.

He made no resistance whatever, and was
stabbed in the back... I must not dwell upon
the fearful repast... Words have no power to
impress the mind with the exquisite horror
of their reality.
--Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849)
American poet and short-story writer.

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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamourous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist
just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes
look for them behind words that have changed
their meaning.

--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_Lords and Ladies_ [1992]


Susurrus... according to her grandmother's
dictionary, it meant "a low soft sound, as of
whispering or muttering." Tiffany liked the
_taste_ of the word. It made her think of
mysterious people in long cloaks whispering
important secrets behind a door: _susurruss-
susurusss_...

She'd read the dictionary all the way through.
No one told her you weren't supposed to.

--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_The Wee Free Men_ [2003]
[Pratchett's ellipsis and _italics_.]


Glint, glisten, glitter, gleam...

Tiffany thought a lot about words, in the long
hours of churning butter.

"Onomatopoeic," she'd discovered in the
dictionary, meant words that sounded like
the noise of the thing they were describing,
like _cuckoo_. But _she_ thought there
should be a word meaning a word that
sounds like the noise a thing would make
if that thing made a noise even though,
actually, it doesn't, but would if it could.

_Glint,_ for example. If light made a noise
as it reflected off a distant window, it'd go
_glint._ And the light of tinsel, all those
little glints chiming together, would make a
noise like _glitterglitter._ _Gleam_ was a
clean, smooth noise from a surface that intended
to shine all day. And _glisten_ was the soft,
almost greasy sound of something rich and oily.

--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_The Wee Free Men_ [2003]

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Over the course of the succeeding decades, as the laws of war --
or, as they came to be known, international humanitarian law --
evolved and expanded, the ICRC [International Committee of the Red
Cross] became the legally recognized guardian of these regulations.
And yet, the paradox of the success of the Red Cross movement, the
advance of international law, and, after World War II, the worldwide
diffusion of the concept of human rights and new authority for it,
is that all these developments coincide not with a new era in which
Kant's perpetual peace was ushered in, but rather with the hideous
course of the twentieth century itself. No century has had better
norms and worse realities. In the period from the signing of the
first Geneva Convention and the subsequent conferences of 1899 and
1907 in The Hague, to the outbreak of World War I, the rights of
individuals in wartime were expanded, "aggressive force" was
outlawed, and protections for civilians were expanded. Then came
the mass slaughter in the trenches of World War I and the Armenian
genocide to make a mockery of all that.

In the aftermath of that war, in a Europe shocked by the toll exacted
by gas attacks, another Hague conference outlawed the use of poison
gas and other forms of chemical and biological warfare. Three years later,
the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war itself. Those whom the gods wish
to destroy they first allow to set international legal norms. Nine years
later, the Japanese army was murdering Chinese civilians by the hundreds
of thousands in Nanking. Four years after that, the Germans put in motion
the Final Solution. Four years after that, twenty million Russians were
dead and Europe was in ruins.

--David Rieff,
_A Bed For the Night, Humanitarianism In Crisis_

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Words are loaded pistols.
--Jean-Paul Sartre (1905—1980)
French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist;
winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature.
_What is Literature?_ [1947]

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is
everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To
gather much thought into few words stamps the man
of genius.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
"The Art of Literature"
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders

As pines
keep the shape of the wind
even when the wind has fled and is no longer there,
so words
guard the shape of man
even when the man has fled and is no longer there.
--George Seferis [Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades] (1900—1971)
Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.
_On Stage_ [1966]

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
"On the Diseases of the Soul"
_Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918]

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm
of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
--Tobias George Smollett (1721—1771)
English satirical novelist.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be
cruel or kind, and they can change their meaning
right in front of you. They pick up flavors and
odors like butter in a refrigerator.
--John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the
fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
Speech to the Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson dinner,
Denver, Colorado [5 September 1952].

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires
fall, but wise words endure.
--Edward Thorndike (1874—1949)
American educator and psychologist.

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James Thurber (1894—1961)
American cartoonist and humorist.

One of Thurber's favorite stories concerned a conversation
he had with a nurse while he was in the hospital. 'What
seven-letter word has three u's in it?' he asked. The
nurse pondered and then said, 'I don't know, but it must
be unusual.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was
invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
--Calvin Trillin (1935— )
American journalist, humorist, and novelist.
In "The Nation" (weekly magazine).

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Fun With Words:
http://www.rinkworks.com/words/

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catachresis (noun) [kζ-tκ-'kree-sis]
The abuse of words or phrases.

etymology (noun) [e-tκ-'mah-lκ-ji]
The scientific study of the history of words and how
their sounds and meanings change over time.

euphemism (noun) ['yu-fκ-mi-zm]
A less offensive word substituted for an offensive one.
janitor = custodian
crippled = impaired

hornswoggle (verb) ['horn-swah-gκl]
(Slang) To cheat, swindle, hoodwink,
or bamboozle.
Etymology: We do not know the origin of hornswoggle.
It belongs to a group of “fancified” words that were
particularly popular in the American West in the 19th
century, words exhibiting the frontier skepticism
toward educated speech. "Hornswoggle" first appeared
in print in Kentucky in 1929. Other words of this ilk
are "stick-to-it-iveness," first appearing in 1867,
"skedaddle," which appeared in 1861 somewhere in
Missouri, and "discombobulate," in 916. "Bamboozle"
first appeared in England around 1700, indicating an
earlier tradition of such concocted words.

mot juste [moh-ZHOOST], noun:
A word or phrase that exacts fits the case.
Ex.: "My west window," says the ancient Canon D'Ascoyne,
showing a visitor around his ancient church, "has all of the..."
he searches for the mot juste, "exuberance of Chaucer,
without any of the... concomitant crudities."
--Vincent Canby, Sir Alec: Amid the Laurels, Very Hardy,
New York Times, April 25, 1983

neologism [nee-OLL-uh-jiz-um], noun:
1. A new word or expression.
2. A new use of a word or expression.
3. The use or creation of new words or expressions.
Ex.: The word "civilization" was just coming into use in the 18th century,
in French and in English, and conservative men of letters preferred to
avoid it as a newfangled neologism.
--Larry Wolff, "If I Were Younger I Would Make Myself Russian:
Voltaire's Encounter With the Czars",
_New York Times_ [13 November 1994]

onomatopoeia (noun) [ah-nκ-mζ-tκ-'pee-yκ]
The reference of a word to a sound resembling the
pronunciation of the word itself,
e.g. "whizz," "thud," "thump," "hiss," "moo,"
"quack," "hoot," "howl," "whack."

palindrome [PAL-in-drohm], noun:
A word, phrase, sentence, or verse that reads
the same backward or forward.
A few examples:
* Madam, I'm Adam. (Adam's first words to Eve?)
* A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama! (The history
of the Panama Canal in brief.)
* Able was I ere I saw Elba. (Napoleon's lament.)
* Mom, Dad.

Paronym (noun) ['pζ-rκ-nim]
A derivation from another word, a word related
to another by derivation, as "derivation" and
"derivative" are derived from "derive;" they
also are paronyms of "derive."

pleonasm [PLEE-uh-naz-uhm], noun:
The use of more words than are necessary to
express an idea; as, "I saw it with my own eyes."
Synonyms: redundancy, circumlocution

sesquipedalian (adjective) [ses-kwκ-pκ-'dey-lyκn]
Long (said of words), made up of many syllables. Also,
a sesquipedalian word. Containing or given to using
such words.


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