Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Johnsonese ... What?

Today’s word is “Johnsonese” ... Jon-suh-neez ... a literary style characterized by rhetorically balanced, often pompous phraseology and an excessively Latinate vocabulary: so called from the style of writing practiced by Samuel Johnson.

What?
Those politicians,
Speech as clear as Johnsonese,
And as relevant.

Anne Selleck
Copyright 2018

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