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Do you have a dimwitticism for us?
Do you wince when you read cliches, moribund metaphors, needless redundancies and other examples of poor writing? Then we want to hear from you!
Robert Hartwell Fiske, author of The Dimwit’s Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them, and editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review (www.vocabula.com), is collecting more dimwitticisms for the next edition of The Dimwit's Dictionary. He needs all the infantile phrases, inescapable pairs, overworked words, plebeian sentiments, quack equations, popular prescriptions, suspect superlatives, torpid terms and withered words he can find (definitions of dimwitticisms). New dimwitticisms are preferred, but prime examples of dimwitticisms already in the Dimwit’s Dictionary are also welcome.
How do I submit a dimwitticism?
Look and listen for dimwitticisms in newspapers, direct mail pieces, books, TV broadcasts, radio shows . . . just about anywhere English is written or spoken. Write down the dimwitticism, together with information about where you found it (publication name, date, etc. ), and email it to publisher Ed Avis or mail it to:
Dimwit's Contest
Marion Street Press, Inc.,
P.O. Box 2249,
Oak Park, Il 60303
What do I get?
The individual submitting the largest number of prime quality dimwitticisms (as judged by Robert Hartwell Fiske) will receive a $250 BookSense gift certificate. First runner-up will receive a $100 gift certificate, and second runner-up will receive a $50 gift certificate. Each individual submitting a dimwitticism will receive an official I Love Dimwits bumper sticker.
How long do I have?
The contest runs until January 1, 2004.
Questions?
Email publisher Ed Avis or author Robert Hartwell Fiske.
Enter today!
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