Vowel Virtuoso Mugs

'When did the first two vowels appear?'

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

"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."

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!'

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

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

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

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

'Coleridge'

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

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

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

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

Writer

Poetry repairman

Bookworm group

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

'I'm a voice over artist.'

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

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

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

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

When English majors become waiters.

Roget's Brontosaurus.