Compound Word

Famous quotes containing the words compound and/or word:

    We are all aware that speech, like chemistry, has a structure. There is a limited set of elements—vowels and consonants—and these are combined to produce words which, in turn, compound into sentences.
    Roger Brown (b. 1925)

    One word is too often profaned
    For me to profane it,
    One feeling too falsely disdained
    For thee to disdain it;
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)