Vocabulary Adventurers Gifts

Campaign for Plain English

Teacher pointing to P,Q, on board: "OK class, which letter comes next? Redbeard, you should know this."

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

'What begins with 'E'? Well, 'Everything'!'

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

'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?"

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

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

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

Alphabet soup

"Monsieur has just ordered a vasectomy..."

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

Excess Baggage: If you can draw, you don't have to know the local language.

"I've been an accountant, an actuary, an advertising exec, an administrator, an architect, an art director, and an auditor, and now I'd like to move on to the B's."

"I lost the spelling bee on the word 'gangsta.' "

'My teacher was right about how many words you can make with just twenty six letters.'

'The sagaman must have had a googol of inedita.'

'Let's have a race to say the alphabet.'

Dinosaurs of the Palindromic Era.

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

'It wasn't me - but I'm sure whoever did it had a good reason. Looks, charm and 10 aliases only get you so far.'

"My alphabet soup doesn't make any sense. How do I run it through spell check?"

"When I agreed to learn the ABC's, I thought D through Z would be optional."

'What does surrender mean?'

"He's in first grade. He'll get to Zs."

Kid learning alphabet on computer say ABCDVD...

Excess Baggage: If you can draw, you don't have to know the local language.

'You have an irritable vowel syndrome.'

Wordplay: Mind Games.

"Somewhere in France Maureen has a tête-à-tête."