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- noun Plural form of
logophile .
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Examples
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There is plenty of grist here for historians and logophiles I'm not ashamed to admit that I had to visit Dictionary.com once or twice, as well as readers of literary fiction.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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There is plenty of grist here for historians and logophiles I'm not ashamed to admit that I had to visit Dictionary.com once or twice, as well as readers of literary fiction.
Review of Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure, by Michael Chabon 2007
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Well, Dave and his cohort of judicious logophiles, such as Eliza.
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Just a few months ago, the venerable Oxford English Dictionary OED, to you logophiles added a number of new entries to its lexicon.
Forbes.com: News Ken Makovsky 2011
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It may not be the same as seeing a human born, but these word babies are the closest we logophiles get to that maternal miracle.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Caroline Hagood 2010
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Words were suggested in the comments, e-mailed to me and a few came through Facebook when I linked to the original logophiles post.
unknown title 2009
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Those logophiles and trivia buffs among us might be interested in the origin of the word jumbo, as in the term mortgage professionals use to describe large loans over $417,000.
Frugal In Virginia 2008
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The logophiles and wordsmiths who are the readers of VERBATIM are likely to find this the most entertaining as well as the most important book published this year.
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This year we have the new edition, which makes it a red-letter year for us wordsmiths and logophiles.
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I doubt very much that these terms include all that are contained in the English lexicon, and readers who are ardent logophiles will very likely be able to add others.
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