Vocab Enthusiasts Pillows

'Too many gaspers kept the turtlers from catching the ridley.'

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

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

In an unprecedented occurrence, Noah Webster fails his vocabulary test.

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

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

"What's another word for 'thesaurus'?"

"Why do people think using big words is a bad thing?"

Irritable Vowel Syndrome: "EEEIIIOOOAAA AUUUEEE!!"

Bee to bee: 'We used buzzwords before they were trendy.'

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

"Don't forget to call it a 'procedure'—it makes it less scary."

'Yes, sure, certainly, you bet, of course, yeah, right, yep....'

Communicating with clients without using buzzwords posed a challenge for the consultants.

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

Maternity ward: 'Baby talk spoken here.'

Male On Sunday

"The first goal of our ad hoc committee should be to learn Latin."

Thesaurus Publishing: Welcome, Greetings, Salutations

We hadn't realised your body language was French....

Frenchman Speaking to Englishman

"I've come up with all the right words for our new sales strategy, now we just need to work out what order to put them in!"

'English is their second language.'

"I procure considerable gratification from belles-lettres."

"Dad, I know what opprobrium means." "That's great, son. Do you know anyone else who does?"

"Yes Spooner, I said 'pool party'."

'Today I learned a little grammar in the classroom and LOTS of vocabulary on the playground!'

Obedience School Spelling Bee

Wordplay: Mind Games.

"My client can't help his verbal obfuscation. He's suffering from straightforwardness dysfunctionality."

'These literary duels really are most frightfully dull.'

People with anything valuable to say rarely become orators.

'Actually, they like to read, but so little is translated into dog.'