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A.Word.A.Day--logograph Do you wish to receive A.Word.A.Day in your mailbox every day? Subscribe here. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio logograph (LO-guh-graf, LOG-uh-) noun A written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation; for example, for 4 read "four" in English, "quattro" in Italian. Also called ideogram, logogram. "We also chose such simple characters in order to reduce the difference in visual complexity between the logographs and lower-case letters." Green, David W., et al, Are visual search procedures adapted to the nature of the script?, British Journal of Psychology, 1 May 1996. This week's theme: words about words. X-Bonus It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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