At 10:57 AM -0700 9/17/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote: >Actually, OED has "verbiage" (with the "i") as a synonym for >"diction, wording, verbal expression," from 1802. > >But not "verbage." > >JL I'm hoping that's /v at r'baZ/. Much more elegant. LH ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org