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  • Everybody's got their own tastes, of course, but when a writer on classical music disses Schumann, the most logophilic composer out there, my eyebrow goes up.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • Everybody's got their own tastes, of course, but when a writer on classical music disses Schumann, the most logophilic composer out there, my eyebrow goes up.

    Dichter(kein)liebe Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • My Sentence The logophilic bartender loved the women in ways Marty Mullholland found repulsive yet admirable in its superficial excess, like a Michael Bay movie Marty thought to himself.

    Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2010

  • My Sentence: The logophilic bartender loved the women in ways Marty Mullholland found repulsive yet admirable in its superficial excess, like a Michael Bay movie Marty thought to himself.

    Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2009

  • I could go on, making you feel my logophilic pain, but perhaps it's better just to quote the rest of the Guidelines in full, without comment, and leave the cleanup to the students as an exercise.

    p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience Nothstine 2008

  • On a level once removed, logophilic students will learn apostrophe ( "O noble trope"), metonymy and synecdoche

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1 1985

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  • Adjective: Of or pertaining to logophilia.

    December 26, 2017