Deplorable Word word itself, and had vowed that none of them, nor their descendants, would seek to discover it. Jadis said she had "learned it in a secret place and paid a terrible price to learn it". The book does not say what that price was, or give further details on the Deplorable Word. Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to any specific weapon of mass destruction, but he alludes to the power of humanity to destroy life. Writing in 1955 in the midst of the Cold War, Lewis has the lion Aslan say to the central characters from the
Turkish grammar the person (and number) of the "possessor" of what is named by the noun: When a word takes one of the endings of possession, the word becomes the name of something "possessed", not possessing. The word for the possessor, if present, takes the genitive case ending. The plural ending will not be attached twice to the same word; therefore ambiguity is possible: Ambiguity can be resolved with #Pronouns. Turkish cases and case endings ("durum ekleri" from "dur-" "stop, last", or "hâl ekleri" from "hâl" "state, condition") can be named (in English) and used roughly as in Latin: The absolute case