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Imagine the Lord talking French! Aside from the few odd words in Hebrew, i took it for granted that God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English. Clarence Day, Life with Father



Last night as usual i was chatting to a friend about random things and somehow or other we manage to start discussing what makes a word a word. I know some of you may go uh-oh this is going to be boring, oh well i thought it was interesting... Actually it got me thinking. Back in the old days of uni i studied Linguistics and i must say apart from the dodgy teacher that embarrassed me in front of the lecture group i really enjoyed the subject!! I think a love of reading and learning has a huge part to play in this.

Anyway so i dragged out my text book and actually read a bit of it!! Amazing! Anyway in the book i came across the quote i mentioned earlier. And its so true! When i read Gods word i dont really think about how he communicated to his people, as in what language. I mean i know they didnt speak english as we do but i dont know i guess its something we dont really think about all the time and so we really do take it for granted.
Lately though i must say ive been knuckling down in my quiet times and pulling apart verses and stuff and so i do end up reading the footnotes and stuff, i even bought a bible dictionary and i found it really really interesting! Reading about different measurements, how different places got their names, how people got their names... ok so can be boring...

But yes back to the initial question, what can be categorised as a word? The word 'is' came up in my discussion and im like 'is' is ony worth two letters, shouldnt really be worthy of being called a word, and yet there it is in the dictionary. Even more amazing is the word 'a' yes it really is a word! Go check it out in the dictionary!! Seems like even the smallest things in life arent left out. But i suppose it makes sense really i mean we use a in most of our sentences....

Then my friend said something like 'Couldnt every letter in our (26 letter) alphabet be a word?'

At first i said no. But later on lying in bed it got me thinking, i reckon the true answer is yes! And il show you how...

a some, another, one, any
b to exist, have reality - To b or not to b that is the question; a type of buzzing animal
c the blue stuff which ships sail on, the act of being able to view things
d a contracted form of had and would (ok so im grasping at straws here :P)
e a reference to the male person spoken by someone who has a tendency to leave of the 'h' sound eg "E 'as a brain!"
f in case that, granting or supposing that, whether... spoken by someone with a kiwi accent - "F you are going out..."
g a word mentioned when someone is skeptical about something - "G i dunno!"
h the beginnings of a weird sneeze - HCHOO!
i the round white ball in the socket of your skull with a coloured iris
j any number of Australian birds
k a shortened form of ok
l a reference to that really hot place down under spoken by the person mentioned above who has a tendency to leave off their h's - "Bloody 'ell"
m a word said when thinking about something - "(e)M i think so..."
n with, along with - the boy n girl
o a surprised utterance - 'O my goodness!'
p a natural bodily function
q a long line found most commonly during post Christmas sales
r present indicative plural of the verb b
s a colloquial reduction of is, has, does, us
t something we drink and is grown in India
u anyone in general
v an english speaking French refering to themselves and someone else - "V are going to ze moviez"
w two people :P
x the person who is no longer part of your half
y a questioning of something in particular 'Y am i writing this stuff?'
z a person suffering from a bad case of the flu regaling a message to someone - 'E z to rig 'ib back' (Translation 'he said to ring him back'

So yes Yvonne every letter in our alphabet can be a word, it's just knowing how!
You were right after all, you were/are a secret brain child!!

CHEERS BIG EARS!!