She was in love with grammar, he was a passionate

She was in love with grammar, he was a passionate entomologist. Their children, Ellipsis, Oxford Comma and little Rhagodessa, were often left to their own devices as their parents

descending into a bickering marriage night after night about literary functionalism and insect anatomy. "The plural is aedeagi, not aedeaguses!" she cried. He said what mattered

to him. He was anally retentive and the idea of a newcomer on his turf made him pull out all his big words like a weirdo. He hit the dictionary looking for weapons. "Aha!" this

is a case of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Wait! What's that sound? Is it a word? Is it a phrase? No! It's Capt. Simple English! Scourge of Doc. Webster & the evil Thesaurus

anity. Capt. Simple English had one mission: to rid the world of unecessary words. "Never use two words when one will do!" he bellowed succinctly. Doc. Webster plotted to

resurrect Latin as English had so many ways of describing or saying the same thing. Dr Webster travelled to Oxford University where the Oxford English Dictionary was being

tossed into the quad and set alight by students in high spirits. They even welcomed Cantabridgians into their midst, as the flames of the OED reached for the stars. Dr Webster

, as he was now known, Dr. Webster had left the home of George Papadopoulos and Katherine to go to Harvard medical school. After 8 years of grueling study he'd achieved what

he thought he would achieve, and that was nothing. 8 years studying at Harvard, and Mr Webster was forced to settle for a minimum wage job at McDonald's. He was not happy.

He calls in a poor, simple farmer named Jabez Stone to meet the manager, Mr Scratch. The rest, as you can see, is history. Mr Webster was able to utilize his Harvard law degree.