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The opening shot of a brain that just decided silence was overrated.
means The initial word spoken or written in a sequence, sentence, or utterance — the one that breaks the silence and gets things started.
from A plain English pairing of two old workhorses. 'First' comes from Old English 'fyrst,' a superlative built on the same ancient root as 'fore' and 'foremost' — literally the 'most fore' thing, the one out ahead of all others. 'Word' descends from Old English 'word,' a deeply rooted Germanic term (cousin to German 'Wort' and Latin 'verbum') for a unit of speech. Stuck together, they simply name what they describe: the thing at the front of the talking.
- common pick
- Babies worldwide often start with simple repeated syllables
- language origin
- Nobody knows humanity's actual first spoken word ever
- average age
- Most kids say it around twelve months
- recorded history
- First written words trace to ancient Sumerian accounting
first folio — shakespeare's collected works, 36 plays published in 1623
first amendment — us constitution protection of speech, press, religion ratified 1791