Ok, I think I officially now hate the words "verbage" and "verbiage". People use them to mean "text" or "copy" it seems. So is it all verbs then? What's a "verbi?"

Here's what I found for definitions of these horrible words:

•  A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word ‘garbage’. Compare content-free. More pejorative than ‘verbiage’.
• "Verbiage” is an insulting term usually meant to disparage needlessly wordy prose. Don’t use it to mean simply “wording.” There is no such word as “verbage."

Verbiage: a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content.

So saying that you're providing verbiage is not a good thing, actually. :-)

-T

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