Many concepts and ideas were brought from Bravo, the original GUI word processor developed at Xerox PARC, into Microsoft Word. Bravo's creator Charles Simonyi left PARC to work for Microsoft in 1981. Simonyi hired Brodie, who had worked with him on Bravo, away from PARC that summer. Word's first general release was for MS-DOS computers on May 2, 1983. It was not well received, and sales lagged beh ...

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In contrast to Asian languages and others, measure words are not grammatical in the case of most Indo-European languages including English. English does have a distinction between mass nouns and count nouns, and employs a small number of fixed words that can be considered semantically-oriented counters. Consider the following: five head of cattle (said by ranchers) ten stem of roses (said by florists) three pair of pants (or pairs) Note that the preceding measure words are singular in form. If they were plu ...

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Orange is notable as one of the most common words in English that does not rhyme with any other word. The closest "real" approximation is door-hinge, although torn hinge and flange [1] have also been suggested. Some made-up words have rhymed with orange: grorange — a blend of green and the color orange (found in a Mario Brothers novel) korange — a hypothetical hybrid of the orange and the kumquat borange — "rubbish", "of poor quality" (a coinage of comedian Ross Noble on the Tr ...

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HORSEMAN'S WORD: A secret word taught at initiation into the Horsemen's Society that was usually whispered to the horse by said *Horse Whisperers*. This word enabled that person to *jade* (stop) or *draw** (cause to go) the beast. This feat was actually accomplished by the use of oils and mixtures (sometimes added to a horse's favorite food or snack) that were created by the Horseman that were either repellent or aromatic in nature and that caused the specific horse behaviour noted above. An example of a Horseman's Word from the early 20th Century Gypsy folk is Deagblasda (sweet-tasting).

*Hele, Conceal, Never Reveal,

Neither Write, Nor Dite, Or Recite,

Nor Cut, Nor Carve, Nor Write in Sand*.

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The term word processing was devised by IBM in the 1960s, and originally encompassed all business equipment—including manually operated typewriters—that was concerned with the handling of text, as opposed to data. Electromechanical paper-tape-based equipment such as the Friden Flexowriter had long been available; the Flexowriter allowed for operations such as repetitive typing of form letters (with a pause for the operator to manually type in the variable information). In the sixties it began to be feasible to apply the technology ...

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In ancient times, the Words Worth tablet - a huge monolith slab inscribed with the secrets of the universe - was sundered by dark forces. The Tribes of Light (which consists of humans living on the world's surface) and Shadow (mostly part humans, part animals or monsters living in an underground city) blame each other for the tablets destruction and have been fighting a merciless war for centuries. While directing his forces against the most recent incursions of the Light army, the current king of the Shadow tribe, Wortoshika (which could be ...

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Orange derives from Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree", with borrowings through Persian nārang, Arabic nāranj, Spanish naranja, Late Latin arangia, Italian arancia or arancio, and Old French orenge, in chronological order. The first appearance in English dates from the 14th century. The name of the color is derived from the fruit, first appearing in this sense in the 16th century. Multiple sources conjecture that the Sanskrit word itself derives from an unknown Dravidian source, based on the historical spread of oranges through th ...

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The Fourteen Words is a White nationalist phrase frequently used by Neo-Nazis. The slogan was coined by David Lane, an imprisoned member of The Order. It states: We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children. It is often used as a greeting to affirm one's affiliation with White Pride. Their origin can be traced to Volume 1, Chapter 8 of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: "What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproduction of our race and our people, the sustenance of our chi ...

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MAGIC WORD

The root of all Magic is The Word. Ho Logos . In every culture, the shaman is the person with the largest vocabulary (although, ironically, he may express himself clumsily). He is also the one who sees beyond a person's words to what that person really means. For the magician, as for the poet, words are fluid and changing. Puns, paradoxes and triple/quadruple meanings come and go with varying degrees of exactitude or "correctness". Magical meanings derive from context or intention. Etymology is always strictly, historically, accurate, but usually beyond the safe and unimaginative academic frontiers into the realm of historical intuition. Where history and genuine insight leave off and illusion begins it is sometimes difficult to say.

The Egyptian God of magic, Thoth (or Tahuti, "The Speaker") is self-created and dwells in chaos. As he speaks, each word becomes a created thing (as in Greek a "poem" means anything that has been made). Hunchback: Is Chaos the Void or is it merely the pre-linguistic, Briatic world?

In our time when the television commercial has raped and perverted language for the sake of profit, when words have little more value than the squawking of parrots, it is difficult to imagine that there was once a mighty and living oral tradition. The true magician has not forgotten.

Therefore the adept must be adept with words. The unitiatated believe that Magic is entirely the result of uttering certain catchwords or phrases: "Hocus-Pocus-Dominocus!" or "Hey Presto! Hi Jingo, begone!" Oddly enough, this bit of folk wisdom is not as far off the mark as it might seem. Words do have power. Spells can be evoked. PKD once said that for every individual in the world there exists a special word or phrase, for him alone, which upon his hearing, would result in his death. There is also another word that would heal him of anything. Most of us, however, go through our whole lives without hearing either of these vital words or phrases.

The words used by magicians, when they are not the nonsense syllables of charlatans, tend to be words from archaic languages. Today these are primarily Latin or Greek (in our culture), whereas in the 18th and 19th Century, ritual words were usually taken from Hebrew. Hebrew magic itself borrowed from the earlier Chaldaeans, Babylonians and Assyrians. Finally, there is Buddhism and Yoga from Sanskrit, Tantrism from Tibetan, Taoism from Chinese and Sufism from Arabic.

Says Her Bak , "Do not be negligent in finding and using the right word. Thoth never replies to inexact medus."

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Power word - Political. Association, instead of labor union Equal. "All men are created equal" by Thomas Jefferson, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" of the French Revolution or the "Separate but equal" doctrine upheld by Plessy v. Ferguson. Freedom. Same as above, especially when used to describe the aims of United States foreign policy. Many use the word to contrast American goals with those of terrorists (in the War on Terror) a ...

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Word-Brahman: Om; Shabda Brahman.

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The revelation, which is found in LDS D&C 89, contains four parts: an introduction (verses 1-4) a list of substances such as wine, strong drink, and tobacco that should not be used (verses 5-9) a list of foods that should be used, sometimes with certain limitations (verses 10-17) a promise to those who follow the guidelines (verses 18-21). Among the substances which the revelation indicates should not be used, the first is "wine or strong drink", which the revelation says should not b ...

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When a computer architecture is designed, the choice of a word size is of substantial importance. There are design considerations which encourage particular bit-group sizes for particular uses (e.g. for addresses), and these considerations point to different sizes for different uses. However, considerations of economy in design strongly push for one size, or a very few sizes related by multiples or fractions (submultiples) to a primary size. That ...

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Although Bedingfield had become a major superstar in the UK and Europe, the jury seemed to be out on whether she would attain that status in North America. Based on the response of her first single, it seems like that the task has been accomplished (at least to a moderate degree) as she scored her first top-twenty hit in both Canada and the United States, it peaking relatively close on both char ...

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The soft returns are usually placed after the end of complete words, or after the punctuation that follows complete words. However, word wrap may also occur following a hyphen. Word wrap following hyphens is sometimes not desired, and can be avoided by using a so-called non-breaking hyphen instead of a regular hyphen. On the other hand, when using word processors, invisible hyphens, called soft hyphens, can also be inse ...

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A Christian theological definition of The Word of God according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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The Word of God:

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The single was co-written by Bedingfield, Steve Kipner, A. Frampton, and W. Wilkins. It was co-produced by Steve Kipner, A. Frampton, and W. Wilkins. The version released in North America is a slightly remixed version of the original. In her debut single, Bedingfield breaks some new ground by having one of the few songs of popular music in recent history to deal with a very sensitive subject that is ...

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Word of faith - Criticism of Word of faith. Charismatic Chaos by John MacArthur (ISBN 0310575729) Christianity in Crisis by Hank Hanegraaff (ISBN 0890819769) Counterfeit Revival by Hank Hanegraaff (ISBN 0849942942) New Wine or Old Deception by Roger Oakland (ISBN 0936728620) Occult Invasion by Dave Hunt (ISBN 1565072693) One World by Ron J. Bigalke Jr. (ISBN 0974981184) Seduction of Christianity by Dave Hu ...

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There is a Shi'a Muslim tradition called "Mushaf of Fatimah", which speaks of Fatimah upon the passing of her father, Muhammad. There are several versions of this tradition, but common to all are that the angel Gabriel appeared to her and consoled her by telling her things that she wrote in a book. According to one tradition [1] they were prophesies. The book, if it was ever physical, did not survive, and was seen to be something that the Imam Mahdi (the promised one of Shi' ...

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Here are examples of word squares up to order eight: The largest claimed English word squares are 10-by-10 [1][2], though the examples constructed so far are not universally accepted as they include, for example, proper names, compound phrases, or artificial plurals of non-countable nouns. Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas is a famous palindromic word square in Latin which also forms a sentence. ...

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In Canada, "football" can refer to either Canadian football or American football, often differentiated as either "CFL" (from the governing Canadian Football League) or "NFL" (from the US National Football League). Because of the similarity between the games, many people in both countries do not consider the two styles of football separate sports per se, but rather different codes of the same sport. If a Canadian were to say, "My brother plays football in the US", it would be clear from context that American football is meant. Association football, which is rapidly ...

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In Ireland, "football" can mean association football or Gaelic football, depending on which code predominates within the speaker's community. For Ulster Unionists in Northern Ireland, "football" is never Gaelic football. In urban areas, especially Dublin, "football" usually means association football. In rural areas, particularly the west of Ireland, "football" usually means Gaelic football. For many people, either sport may be called "football" depending on the context; conversely, without context, "football" is ...

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