Incipit, ( Latin: "here begins") the opening word or words of a medieval Western manuscript or early printed book.
NB: If you do click on my "Their master's voice" piece you will notice a typographical error in the opening word.
"I developed a method of playing and replaying the footage – spotting the start of a song and then looking for clues such as an opening word of the lyric or an instrument".
Another myth about the world order but dealing with it from a very different point of view concerns Enlil's son, the rain god Ninurta, called from its opening word Lugal-e ("O King").
Leslie Crocker Snyder, a former judge making her second run for Manhattan district attorney, had the opening word on Tuesday night in the first televised debate among Democratic candidates for the office, and she came out with a punch.
After reading the first draft, an editor I respect said to me, "But what else are they, other than old?" I was mortified, and began to ask myself some soul-searching questions that I should have answered long before I'd written the opening word.
