Gordon Byron Words are powerful. This is no news flash for those of us who put words together for our livelihood. Yet sometimes it is good to take a step back and remember just how powerful our tools, our words are.
Words are powerful.
Words have the power to change things for good or for ill. Ancient peoples also recognized the power of words. In Latin, there are two words for word. One is verbus , from which we get verbal. Originally, however, dico meant to consecrate, as to the gods, an indicator of the power of words in that culture.