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What's the word for people who like to use long words? Thanks!
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Welcome to the board, blackthorn. How about sesquepedalianophiles? 
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one of the senses of sesquipedalian is "given to the use of long words"; wouldn't that suffice?
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Circumlocution (talking around the issue) is a related affliction.
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...wouldn't that suffice?
There goes tsuwm wielding Ockham's Razor again ['admiring glance' emoticon]
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AnnaS remarked admiringly There goes tsuwm wielding Ockham's Razor again Never mind that the entire village of Ockham will now be hopelessly hirsute.  Sorry, I couldn't resist. I'm much more used to seeing Occam - Ockham makes me think of a stereotypical English village.
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That's it! Thanks for jogging the memory to you and rhubarbcommando.
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Occam is another spelling of Ockham. It's where William Occam, first wielder of the razor, came from.
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