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Sophisticated alternatives to common words

May 20, 2012

gift (extra or unexpected . . . sometimes given with customer’s purchase) n.: lagniappe

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Forbes FYI is the magazine that GQ and Esquire want to be. Under the editorship of Christopher Buckley, the magazine is consistently humorous, crisply written and slightly, but not obnoxiously, tongue in cheek. . .  Unfortunately, you can’t find the magazine on newsstands. It’s the quarterly lagniappe sent to devoted subscribers of Forbes magazine. (Cathy Hainer, “Dreaming of a Martha Stewart Christmas—Forbes FYI Gives the Funny Bone a Good Workout,” USA Today, 11/29/1994.)

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