Language Virtuoso Mugs

"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."

"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!'

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

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

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

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

"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?"

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

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?"

Armchair quarterback/Armchair everything

Roget's Brontosaurus.

When English majors become waiters.

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

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

'The chechako sparged rhamnose into his yerba.'

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

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

"It took years of vocal training, but I now have a vocal range from squeaky right down to tenor..."

Recording Studio

"Spell 'flower'" "F-L-O-W-E-R" "Spell 'onomatopoeia'" "This contest is rigged"