Regional Dialect Explorers Mugs

'The biggest adjustment to relocating on the west coast is calling people 'dude'.'

Campaign for Plain English

"Would you relax? All you guys are so tense. I just wanted to tell you to your face how enigmatic I find you."

Why we need poetry. . .

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

'the selling of seashells by the seashore was sluggish.'

'I don't like to brag, but I'm the guy who coined the phrase, 'Honey, I'm Home'.'

"These meetings were a lot shorter before we invented compound sentences."

"So I'm like, doesn't anyone speak proper English any more?"

"'Parent' should always be an action verb."

'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'

Scouse For Beginners

The Nanuit Have 2,027 Words For Snow, But, After Awhile, They Just Talk About Something Else...

A Semicolon.

'I can't talk to my wife - all she says is `Baaah! Baaah!`!

Apostrophe. . . Apostropher

"What does 'inexplicable' mean..?"

'The rozzer in the dorp had never seen a quod.'

Frenchman Speaking to Englishman

"It's eagle before snake except after feather."

"It's just force of habit. When I say 'cavemen' I of course mean 'cavepersons'."

"I know it's a foreign book...but I'm reading it with a local accent."

'And is this young lady your fiasco, Mr. Jones?'

'Mom! - Jeffrey just said a DADDY word!!'

''Pop'? In my part of the country they're called a 'Soda-Tart'.'

Werewolves of London, Ontario

'The ocker dared to call her bortz a jargoon.'

'He knows a few words, but he can't really process them yet.'

'Returning from the klong he bruited the anableps.'

Computer Speak: 'Beware!...There is no such thing as a 'free launch'.'

"All the letters in the alphabet are one-syllable words. Tell that to "W"."

'Do you not have a dictionary?'