#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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."