Linguistic Enthusiasts Gifts

Pedants enter PIN.

"Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet... Wait, what the heck is a 'tuffet'?! Who says 'tuffet'? Shouldn't it be 'ottoman'?"

Yeah, I'm worried all the time, too --- I wish we'd never invented the future tense! (Published originally on January 12, 1998.)

"We're to stop talking about 'budget cuts'. Apparently it's depressing for staff and clients..."

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

Campaign for Plain English

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

"He's sworn never to say Boudicca, ShrOwsbury, whoM, or narrative."

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

'Thank goodness you were wrong mom, dad says a period is what comes at the end of a sentence.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

The Family Joules: Part 21

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

Wordplay: In The Bag.

'Stick them up...'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

'There it is, 'Twerk', right next to 'Twerp'.'

"It lost a little something in translation."

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

'Mom and dad...if someone threw a rock at me, it would really be like killing two birds with one stone.' 'I told you if we had a child, he'd be a wise-quacker.'

"Wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . ."

Raphnrrf? Raphnrrf? Umpha? Frfee? Maamr? Pick.

Staff Yearbook

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

So far the coaching exchange program was hitting a few snags.

"Oui, c'est bon. It is, how you Americans say, 'Magically Delicious'."

Shell Fire