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not only that, but (from dictionary.com):
Note on pronunciation: Verbiage is sometimes pronounced with two syllables, as \VUR-bij\. Charles Harrington Elster, in The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, calls this a ``thoroughly beastly mispronunciation that unfortunately has become so common that two current dictionaries recognize it.'' He continues, ``Marriage and carriage have two syllables, but, traditionally and properly, foliage and verbiage have three.''
...which leads, of course, to verbage.
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