"The Dimwit's Dictionary": Chosen by "PC Magazine Extra" as one of "The Top 10 Internet Downloads" for December 1999: "Anyone can start spirit a bit stupid after writing wholly those holiday cards. Let this pecker help you be cagy." -- Angela Gunn. Whereas a witticism is a cagy remark or phrase -- indeed, the height of face -- a "dimwitticism" is the converse; it is a platitude remark or phrase. Dimwitticisms are worn-out language and phrases; they are expressions that leaden our rationality and black our insight, formulas that we rely on when we are too lazy to verbalize what we consider or level to see how we palpate. The more we apply them, the more we conform -- in opinion and spirit -- to everyone else who uses them.The Dimwit's Dictionary is a compilation of thousands of dimwitticisms (cliches, colloquialisms, idioms, and the corresponding) that citizenry mouth and pen excessively. Many of the entries in this book are followed by synonyms that may be used in post of the worn-out tidings or phrase, and by sentence examples taken from a florilegium of publications; others are followed by commentary; and still others by both. But level the mere inclusion of an entryway -- that is, one unaccompanied by synonyms or commentary -- damns it as a dimwitticism. The Dimwit's Dictionary will assistance us in our quest for more purposeful address and writing. The goal is to raise understanding and rouse citizenry to activity. The goal is to verbalize ourselves as never before -- in writing that demands to be register aloud, in address that calls to be captured in print. The Dimwit's Dictionary will vex some citizenry and amuse others. People who palpate as though I am referring to them in some of the commentary in this book may be steamed by what I pen; those who palpate as though I am referring to others may be amused by it. This is an irritation, mirthful book.