From "The Cleverest Clue," by Laurence W. Mynell:

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"We'll step down the road to the 'Ship,' unless you've joined one of these anti-everything leagues lately?"

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He was a professor and had all the letters after his name that you could think of.... He always spoke just so, like a dictionary.

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When he talked, he talked like a dictionary; when he didn't want to talk, he could be as dumb as a doughnut.