Cut Quote by Yotam Ottolenghi

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

— Dr. Seuss

“Tag, you know ‘half-and-half’ is a pejorative use of an ableist term,” Jett chastises. “Both the minotaur contingent and the centaur contingent find it…

— Matt Wallace

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

— Paula Broadwell

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

— Burt Bacharach

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

— Baltasar Gracian

“Polemides is Greek for “child of war.”

— Pierce Brown

My sister's name is Hennessy, so everybody used to be, like, 'Bacardi' to me. Then I shortened it to Cardi B. The 'B' stands…

— Cardi B

I like Quintorris. It means 'Gladiator.'

— Julio Jones

We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And…

— Dave Haywood

“It’s a Venetian name—Baseggio. A patronymic from a Venetian diminutive of the surname Basile. Perhaps you might begin your search there.” “A patronymic diminutive…

— Mackenzi Lee

A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern…

— Anonymous

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and…

— Louis Untermeyer