Lexicon-adventurer Gifts

'A xebec and fluyt passed a heptad of shilpit grugrus.'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Campaign for Plain English

Teacher pointing to P,Q, on board: "OK class, which letter comes next? Redbeard, you should know this."

Transylvanian backpackers.

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

'What begins with 'E'? Well, 'Everything'!'

Eldrow

"Bed Spread"

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

"The library rejected your request to ban all books on cats and squirrels. But, to be fair, it was no dumber than all the other book ban requests we get."

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

Wordplay: Export.

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

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

"The trouble with spelling rules is that they impede creativity."

'...And the mama bear's porridge was frozen solid....'

"And last week I nearly crashed while reading on the freeway..."

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

Alphabet soup

Irritable Vowel Syndrome

"Monsieur has just ordered a vasectomy..."

'Once a donzel, the dyvour now settled for orts.'

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N. The alphabet invention is great. We should copyright it!

Excess Baggage: If you can draw, you don't have to know the local language.

"I've been an accountant, an actuary, an advertising exec, an administrator, an architect, an art director, and an auditor, and now I'd like to move on to the B's."

Supernatural book - The Unexplained

Books 'n' Carrots

'Caroline goes to her crossword compiling class on Thursdays.'

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

"What part of oil lamp next to double squiggle over ox don't you understand?"

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

HELB!

'My teacher was right about how many words you can make with just twenty six letters.'