Vowel Virtuoso Gifts

'When did the first two vowels appear?'

'I'm sorry, Sally, you can't buy a vowel.'

Vowels: E-I-E-I-O. And sometimes 'Y'.

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

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

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

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

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"It's a play on words."

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

Thesaurus Company

'My client has no problem with 'richer' and 'in health'. Our points of contention are 'poorer' and 'in sickness'.'

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

"This is nice. You have your knitting and I have my vodka."

"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!'

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

Dictionary. It's a cordless spell checker!

'Coleridge'

Writer

Poetry repairman

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

Does "worldly goods" include intellectual property?

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

Bookworm group

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

'I'm a voice over artist.'

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

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"