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In Praise Of Everyday Words

Sarah Salway • TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells

Forget Sticks and Stones, it's words that are powerful. As a writer and poet, Sarah’s material is the individual word: what each one tells us about our history, and also what we lose when we let certain ones get taken out of our dictionaries. Her talk is a love letter to words – to their meanings, as well as how they taste in our mouths and sound in our ears.

Forget Sticks and Stones, it's words that are powerful. As a writer and poet, Sarah’s material is the individual word: what each one tells us about our history, and also what we lose when we let certain ones get taken out of our dictionaries. Her talk is a love letter to words – to their meanings, as well as how they taste in our mouths and sound in our ears.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells, an independent event.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells, an independent event.

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