Language Virtuoso Gifts

"I'm sorry, but I can't sell you one until you give me the correct pronunciation."

"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

"It's a play on words."

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

Thesaurus Company

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

Dictionary. It's a cordless spell checker!

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

"Why do people think using big words is a bad thing?"

'Sometimes, from time to time, occasionally I wish I'd never bought that ruddy thesaurus!'

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

Does "worldly goods" include intellectual property?

Bookworm group

'I'm a voice over artist.'

Sign on Roget's Thesaurus, Inc.: 'Absent Ingesting Comestibles'

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

". . . and do you, John, give up your smug air of bemused detachment for the demands of marriage?"

'They decided to immure the ladrone in a drogue.'

When English majors become waiters.

'The chechako sparged rhamnose into his yerba.'

Armchair quarterback/Armchair everything

Leonard Cohen

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

Roget's Brontosaurus.

"...and are you, Jessica, committed to this bit?"

"Sometimes, from time to time, now and again, at times I wish I'd never been given this Thesaurus."

"I don't like playing Scrabble with Gracie! She totally makes up all kinds of crazy words! And they're always in the dictionary!"

Barbara Streisand

Recording Studio