Linguistics Admirer Gifts

Happy as a clam

'What about cursive?'

"I'll be glad when this speech balloon strike is over...!"

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."

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

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

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

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'Stick them up...'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

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

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

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

'Do you always have to shout? Well? Do you? Huh?'

'Diver caught scallops - is that a description of what happened or a compound adjective'

'In today's market hyperbole was up sharply. Similes and metaphors held relatively steady with euphemisms hitting another record low.'

'That's not what I meant by 'IV'.'

'Give it to me straight, Doc... is it pronounceable?'

'To them, capital punishment means making them use proper capitalization.'

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

"Go on, say it again, 'I love you' in Armadillo."

'Now what? Everything I can pronounce is OFF!'

Irritable Vowel Syndrome: "EEEIIIOOOAAA AUUUEEE!!"