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10 cents, really?

<"I try not to use five-dollar words when a ten-cent word will do." Tom Brosz

"- Brobdingnagian* Federal spending, and politicians pumping megatons of pork to their constituents under the guise of Home Security." Tom Brosz


(source of brobdinagian quote)

Pray tell, Tom, How much is the word Brobdingnagian worth anyway? I daresay I'd spend at least $5 on that one. At least you made up for it by supplying a list of lesser value (but still not 10 cent) words:

(*A nice term from my Thesaurus. See also: behemoth, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, stupendous, titanic)

cheers,
Steve G.

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