An Abbreviation (n.) shrinks a name until only the club still knows it.
Abbreviation (n.) is a deeply sinister act, degrading the things whose names are abbreviated.
Abbreviation (n.) is an inordinately long word in light of its meaning.
Abbreviation (n.) is, ironically enough, a rather long word.
The Acronym (n.) is the brain's way of making a zipped file.
An Acronym (n.) keeps working long after everybody has forgotten which words it was standing in for.
An Acronym (n.) is a password that lets insiders skip the sentence.
An Adjective (n.) is declined by a German, once he gets his hands on it, and he keeps on declining it until the common sense is all declined out of it.
The Adjective (n.) is, in German, a case where simplicity would have been an advantage; therefore, for no other reason, the inventor of that language complicated it all he could.
The Adjective (n.) is the potbelly of poetry.
Adjective (n.) is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
The Adverb (n.) is praiseworthy — God loveth adverbs.
The Adverb (n.) is the enemy of the verb.
An Adverb (n.) is the only qualifications worth respecting.
An Adverb (n.) always follows the verb.
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