Lexicon Luminary Gifts

"I'm pretty sure the word you've used to describe the new Scrabble isn't allowed."

Lennon and McCartney.

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

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Eldrow

"Bed Spread"

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'He's written some great slogans and some great labels, but he's never written a great coupon.'

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

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Wordplay: Nonstarter.

'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?"

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

Irritable Vowel Syndrome

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

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

"Negotiations are at a crucial phase. We're desperately seeking more ways to say 'no'.''

Emergency Firebreaker

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

"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!

"Cynthia, please disambiguate this suite of objectives, cherry-pick anything that's actionable and Nascar it through a dialed-back event horizon."

Passover Plague

James Russell Lowell

"Talk long-term commitment to me."

Ernie's looking up the meaning of "palindrome". Dictionary. Aha!

Roget's thinking of what English book to read next.

"I procure considerable gratification from belles-lettres."

"Da, I know what opprobrium means."/ "That's great, son. Do you know anyone else who does?"

Leonard Cohen.

'These literary duels really are most frightfully dull.'

"Is there another word for thesaurus?"

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