the word for Wednesday 24.02.2010 is TEXT

Today's word is Text.  What exactly is text? A dictionary defines it as...Text is any of the forms, versions or editions in which a written work exsists. Text is all around us, from newspapers, laptops, sign posts, televisions, books, magazines, text messages on your mobile and you can see it in so many other places. So l had many choices but how to make it interesting enough to make you stop and actually want to look at the image. So where to start? I am sitting in my kitchen thinking about text...it is on every can or bottle in my fridge or store cupboard and the newspaper on my table is nearly all text! So off to town with my shopping list..more text..signs on buses, road signs and all over the walls of my chosen coffee shop. Then as l was having my coffee, l looked at the items on the table and realised l had the interesting image l wanted for the word TEXT.

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text |tekst|noun1 a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form : a text which explores pain and grief.• a piece of written or printed material regarded as conveying the authentic or primary form of a particular work : in some passages it is difficult to establish the original text | the text of the lecture was available to guests.• written or printed words, typically forming a connected piece of work : stylistic features of journalistic text.• Computing data in written form, esp. when stored, processed, or displayed in a word processor.• a text message.• [in sing. ] the main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations : the pictures are clear and relate well to the text.• a script or libretto.• a written work chosen or assigned as a subject of study : the book is intended as a secondary text for religion courses.• a textbook.• a passage from the Bible or other religious work, esp. when used as the subject of a sermon.• a subject or theme for a discussion or exposition : he took as his text the fact that Australia is paradise.2 (also text-hand) fine, large handwriting, used esp. for manuscripts.verbto send a text message: : I thought it was fantastic that he took the trouble to text me.DERIVATIVEStextless |ˈtɛks(t)ləs| adjectiveORIGIN late Middle English : from Old Northern French texte, fromLatin textus ‘tissue, literary style’ (in medieval Latin, ‘Gospel’ ), fromtext- ‘woven,’ from the verb texere.