#vocabulary

"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."

"Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate."

"Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called."

"Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?"asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends,"says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it."

"Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend."

"Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up."

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."

"Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot more emeaglibop."