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HTML

<div id="parent">
    <span>Hello </span>
    <span>world. </span>
    <span>Here </span>
    <span>are </span>
    <span>some </span>
    <span>words!</span>
</div>

JavaScript

$("#parent").delegate("span", "click", function() {
   alert($(this).text()); 
});