Saturday, October 22, 2011

Wordmonger

What's a wordmonger?  It's an author or a speaker who uses the language carelessly or for mere profit.  The word monger also exists, and means a trader or peddler.  You can thus speak of a fishmonger or an ironmonger.  And also a warmonger!  And then, of course, the scandal monger...  All good words, in common use....

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