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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • , 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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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2 Comments

  1. elizabeth Feb 12 2015 @ 15:09

    It is a shame that, while the story is about characters who claim to love grammar, the story had so many grammatical problems within it. I do encourage the use of imagination as it is evident within this story.

  2. SlimWhitman Feb 12 2015 @ 16:44

    No shame in an entertaining story with a few dangling participles. Part of the fun is playing with the rules of language...

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