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** "Bluish red?" [[RedVsBlue They already have a color for bluish red. You know what it's called?]] Purple.
** Actually, "alizarin" is a nice, dark, blood pigment-like color. I'd understand how it'd still look like thesaurusitis, though.
** It could be attributed to 'happy little tree' syndrome.

** Thist roper always attributed that, as well as the sudden emmergence of things like Vermillion and Viridian to pokemon.

** Is that really that unusual? Considering the self-aware B-Movie nature, abomination is probably expected. Not exactly an uncommon word, either.
* Not very sesquipedalian, but for sheer overuse? [[TheRoom Don't worry about it, everything will be fine.]]

*** Physician, heal thyself?
**** You misunderstand. It's the ''English language'' that he operates on. * rimshot*
*** It's an honorary doctorate.

** In a nice bit of {{Lampshade Hanging}}, the narrator says this about his teacher: ?He mispronounced quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau.? What's more, if you look up the meanings, they are words that it would be reasonable for the character in question to know.

*** Oh nonononono! ''Eldritch'' isn't just "spooky," it's [[CosmicHorror "otherworldly"]]; literally, "of the [[TheFairFolk Elvish]] [[EldritchLocation Kingdoms."]]

Ever suspect that an author has an idiosyncratic Word-of-the-Day Calendar? Some really unusual, often sesquipedalian, word appears in the text, perhaps not used in a completely natural way, and perhaps used in a manner inconsistent with a character's established idiolect. It appears two or three more times in subsequent text, in increasingly unlikely and {{egregious}} settings and then is never seen again.

** Hermione's eyes are always "sparkling with tears."

** The word "rent" meaning "to disturb with a violent noise" was used several times in the The Deathly Hollows, but none of the previous books.
*** What? "Rent" doesn't mean that! You're probably thinking of the past tense of "rend", i.e. "to tear apart".

* China Mi?lle uses the word "concatenate" and its derivatives too often in ''IronCouncil''. It only comes up a few times, but it's such an unusual word that it stands out.

** Mi?lle uses tons of very obscure words to describe landscapes. If you've taken a few geology classes, you'll know most of these, but you've never seen as many instances of words like "graben" or "arete". Most notable in ''Iron Council''.

* During the writing of ''[[TheDresdenFiles Summer Knight]]'', Jim Butcher seems to have fallen in love with the word "basso". Nearly everyone's voice is described as such.
** It also appears about five times over the course of ''[[CodexAlera First Lord's Fury]]''.

*** She has a pretty strong affinity for semicolons (";") in almost all of the books, but particularly [[Egregious egregious]] is in the second book, where the letter informing the [[PowerTrio main Trio]] that Aragog has died uses a semicolon. The letter is from ''Hagrid'', for chrissakes! He didn't make it past the 3rd year (not to mention that Hogwarts students don't learn English composition anyways).

* It seems practically blasphemy NOT to describe Yugi's eyes as "amethyst-colored orbs." The YuGiOh fanfiction-writing fandom was particularly fond of its overuse of the word "orb." Dear GOD it was fond of it...

* EnidBlyton and "lashings" in relation to food, the root of the famous BeamMeUpScotty "lashings of [[TrademarkFavouriteFood ginger beer]]". Also it's quite fun to imagine [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Bakura]] whipping people with a beverage.

Compare this to PerfectlyCromulentWord, where fictitious words are inserted in an attempt to sound smart, and {{Malaproper}} and ShlubbAndKlumpEnglish, where the words do exist but are {{egregious}}ly misused. [[OverlyLongGag Egregious.]]

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** That is how you write when you're aiming for lyrical beauty between Tolkien at his best and and Seamus Haney's translation of Beowulf.