From Richards, I.A. (1936), ``The Philosophy of Rhetoric'' ========================================================= Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. [RUL 808 RIC] p.62: [NP] I conclude then that these expression or symbolic words get their feeling of being peculiarly fitting from the (* OTHER WORDS sharing the morpheme which support them IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE MIND.*) ... Evidently again, a proper appreciation of the expressiveness of a word in a foreign language will be no matter of merely knowing its meaning and relishing its sound. It is a matter of (* HAVING, IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE MIND, THE OTHER WORDS *) in the language that share morphemes with it. p.75: [NP] Towards the end of the last lecture [e.g. at p.62 extract above] I was suggesting that our words commonly take meaning through the influence of (* OTHER WORDS WHICH WE MAY NEVER THINK OF BUT WHICH IN THE BACK OF THE MIND CO-OPERATE *) in controlling them.