Literary Linguist Pillows

"It's a play on words."

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"This medical dictionary has had it's appendix taken out. . . !"

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

Torturing the English Language

"You're going to hate yourself."

'If you were disturbed by any issues raised, please call your mum.'

"Meet The Author"

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

"Monsieur, si vous plaît. I'm sure I ordered the fusilli and not the Fusilier."

Victor Hugo

Clown teaches how to speak Jibberish

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

The Dorrie Decimal System

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'Hamlet'

'He likes to power nap.'

Blue Stockings

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Punctuation Police

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"