Words Gifts

'Merle, do you think we sound stupid when we say 'aaargh'? I mean, it's not really a word, is it?'

Despite its name, the Thesaurus was quite often at a loss for words.

"Who teaches apostrophe usage?"

'Honey! I'm cave!' (a caveman arrives home)

'Is there a hyphen in stickup?'

There, Their, They're

'I,N,F,O,R,M,A,T,I,O,N, why do you ask?'

"Well, ain't she classy."

Wordy Sign Hanging on Door of the Thesaurus Editor

''Raining cats and dogs' is just a phrase, Alix.'

'The last thing he said was 'I'm going to go look up the work 'Dictionary' in the dictionary,' and then the universe kind of collapsed around him,'

What's normal?

"Wow, that's a new one to me! How do you spell it?"

"'Cheers'? 'Lorry'? 'Jumper'? You can talk, boy? And you're British??"

"I'd like to make a list. What do we kick when we die?"

'What does unaware mean?'

People who shoot off their mouths never run out of ammo.

Ninedency: A budding tendency

'The cochin was wroth, having received only one mealie.'

Roget's Pet

A chip on the shoulder comes from wood higher up.

'Eureka! I've just coined the word, 'Eureka'!'

'Well I personally find the word 'oxymoron' to be an oxymoron.'

'The horrent pyknic was a crummy kegler.'

Cockney language book

"Stop the presses - they've just redefined masculinity!"

"I wanted to study etymology, but turned up for the wrong interview."

It's Claus Not Clause

Psychiatry. I have an irrational fear of words like "and," "or," "but" and "if"! And, conjunctivitis!

Meet The Phrasemakers

"See – they named a word after us: phlegmatic."

The New Norman

Buzz buzz. Beekeeper. Beep beep. Key beeper.

Look! Up in the sky! It's absurd! It's inane! It's Malaprop Man! Malaprop Man! You're a TV weatherman! What's the forecast? A shift in the jet stream will bring clods and two inches of participation. Later, skies will clear with a twenty-knock wind. In the morning humility will rise and a dense frog will come in. Temperatures will be cruel throughout the period. Are you on national TV Malaprop Man? No, I specialize in loco forecasts! That's for sure!

zzzzzzz-zzzzzzz. Darn, I feel like I should know this.