Compound Words

Famous quotes containing the words compound and/or words:

“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)

“There is one thing that matters—to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)