"A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work". (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. 1906)
A vehicle for displaying the full glory of the compiler's ignorance: of the language, its spelling and pronunciation, of typography, and of the world in general. Statistics prove that the narrowness of the word-monger's dogmatism is directly proportional to the depth of the abyss of his/her unknowledge. (An Geryadorer Dyslettrys, Gerva an Scrynkyer. 2006)
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