Vintage Vocabulary Fan Prints

What Is Joe Biden Thinking When He Uses Words like Malarkey?

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

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

'Sigh! So that's what love is all about...'

Moulin Rouge Security

"I found out why we study vocabulary. Last night, my mother told me to ruminate, and I spent three hours in my room."

'Dr Johnson, it's very interstyng, but ov wat use is this Dicshunry of yors?'

"It's time you had those dinosaur hips replaced."

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

"My doctor said I have 'a reptile dysfunction.'"

'Kindly explain to His Majesty that I didn't mean 'nincompoop' in the pejorative sense.'

(Gallerie Martorelli) (Art-Babble spoken here)

Correct Spelling Lane.

"Sometimes, occasionally, from time to time, now and then, periodically I wish I'd never been given this Thesaurus."

'The MCC celebrate a famous victory' group of dodgy looking old English men holding drinking glasses

Mr Micawber Delivers some Valedictory Remarks

Its a poor heart that never rejoices

"Nobody loved little William Poopy-Pants."

Old Martin Chuzzlewit Suspects the Landlady without Reason

Things we rarely hear: Bow...er...wow...er..um...woof/like tweet, I mean, y'know, tweet/whatchamacallit moo...

"I procure considerable gratification from belles-lettres."

"And look sir - here's another interesting derivative of that phrase..."

1839: Rare photograph of wagons on the 'Organ Trail.'

"I'm impressed! Junior actually asked to use our old-fashioned dictionary!"

'You mean to ssssay we have sssspeach imedimentssss?'

Wordplay: Mind Games.

Jack and Jill

"At the last minute, his personal physician always intervenes."

"Have you given any more thought to my idea of using a sword?"

Masked Admirer

'These literary duels really are most frightfully dull.'

A Little Mistake.

'The best the grotty magus could do was produce a footy pagurid.'

Two men taking part in a duel are too close to a cliff

Old Age Depression