The word “word” is exclusively and genuinely self-describing. Compare to the mathematical concept of prime numbers. Primes are only divisible by itself and one. To describe word, one must use “word” itself.

“stab” (word) is a word for stab (action)

“ball” (word) is a word for ball (thing)

“funny” (word) is a word for funny (idea)

“word” (word) is a word for word (idea)

To use anything else to describe it is inadequate, scandalous. Because word is the starting point of language—the progenitor of all words. Few would dare describe a father by the attributes of his son. For it is more likely that a son became who he is by inheriting his father’s qualities.

Our beloved anomaly is omnipresent, pervasive. Word imprinted on all its offspring.