Associations to the word «Scytale»

Wiktionary

SCYTALE, noun. A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography in ancient times.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky