Words

This reader’s love of language was piqued by the vocabulary in Leonard Garment’s entertaining essay (Opinion, March 8). Tumbrils of mots justes enervated my quotidian ennui. Dare I say words are his bag?

The next day, moreover, your erudite editors roiled me with their description of Kate Winslet (“In Defense of the Appetizing Female,” Commentary, March 9). My dictionary (“The Largest of Its Kind! The Most Entries--Over 74,000!”) was verklemmt by zaftig!

Keep up the good work--perhaps a glossary at the terminus of this section?

TONY SCOTT

West Hills