Vocabularies Gifts

'Once a donzel, the dyvour now settled for orts.'

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

So I'm "cheap." It's a perfectly good word. And it aptly describes my interest in conserving resources. I suppose we could call you "thrifty." Heavens no! And waste two whole letters? I see we've only wasted one whole tea bag.

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

"It's a play on words."

What does aloof mean?

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

New Flavors at Where's the Scoop Ice Cream

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

We're going on a first date. So many words are misused every day. Literally! I don't accept the use of imperfect language. Me either. Trying to fight it has no effect. It's all a mute point. Irregardless, I could care less. I had nothing farther to say.

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

Dictionary. It's a cordless spell checker!

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

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

'Sometimes, from time to time, occasionally I wish I'd never bought that ruddy thesaurus!'

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

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

'What's with the Thesaurus - trying to find a clinical term for love?'

"What does procrastination mean?"

Wordplay: Rabbit Punch.

"Well %$@#(&!! is not a banned word in the &%Xsing UK!"

"Audacity, noun. Unrestrained impudence. Impudence... Impudence... Impudent, adjective. Marked by impertinent disrespect. Impertinent... Impertinent..."

"Of course, that's only a first draft."

Sign on Roget's Thesaurus, Inc.: 'Absent Ingesting Comestibles'

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

Wordplay: Me.

Roget's Brontosaurus.

Wordplay: Lemonade - Save the Lemon.

"I attempted to circumvent the traditional trappings of a teen furlough...but I was thwarted by my czar-ish parental unit."

When English majors become waiters.

'They decided to immure the ladrone in a drogue.'