Nick Maclaren wrote:
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June Hughes wrote:

I won't repeat the message but I had to go and look up the meaning
of your "prolixity" signature!

Learn a new word every day - much better than verbosity as it takes
a minute to work out whether one has been insulted....

I just looked it up

I shall not refrain from indulging myself in superfluous and
excessive pleonasm.

Yes, I had to look that one up, because I could remember its
existence but not what it was or its exact meaning! I have almost
never seen it used, and then only in the form pleonastic.

Your orotundity may yet impel me to a rodomontade. And that's litotes.

--
Mike.