Are you a "Lexiphanes?"

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Sounds handy, doesn't it? ;-) Try the new & improved OED (Oxford English Dictionary) site, look up some words, broaden and deepen your vocabulary. You too can be a "lexiphanes," or those referred to by Campbell in 1767 as Those Lexiphaneses, those Shiners, those Dealers in hard words!