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amother

Jetblack

Mon, Jan 29 2018, 10:54 pm

DD19 picked up a dictionary and began to ask, ''ma, do you know what this word mean?''
Save for a few words I knew what most meant.
She was surprised.
I had to remind her I'm more than double her age so I've had that many more years of exposure to language...

But the real deal is that when I was a kid I used to sit on the toilet with a dictionary in my hand. I know. Who does that today's days?

Jewishfoodie

Mon, Jan 29 2018, 10:55 pm

I only read it for the words..

daagahminayin

Mon, Jan 29 2018, 11:17 pm

I used to love reading the dictionary. I asked my parents for a huge one for my birthday when I was a teenager. I also studied Latin and loved knowing where words came from.

bigsis144

Mon, Jan 29 2018, 11:44 pm

In junior high we had to have dictionaries for English class, and I would often read it in my lap when I was bored or if I finished my work.

I LOVE words!

sunshine5

Mon, Jan 29 2018, 11:53 pm

Reminds me of a story I heard where a 3rd grade teacher asked the girls to look up a word in the dictionary and write a sentence.. So this girl writes ' the fireman went up the ladder amd came down pregnant'.... Pregnant defenition 'carrying a baby'!!!
Kidding aside I also used to like to read the dictionary and I find that it really shaped my vocabulary.

amother

Mint

Tue, Jan 30 2018, 5:04 am

my son (5 years old) picked up the dictionary a few months ago and the first word that he found was 'airplane'. since he is a HUGE fan of airplanes the dictionary became his favorite book Smile

he now sits down and flips through the pages reads short and long words for fun...

sometimes he asks: imale whats a 'dermatologist'...or what does 'hologram' mean???

its funny cos I have an ethymological dictionary lying in our bathroom...and LOVE IT!!!

salt

Tue, Jan 30 2018, 5:28 am

Not exactly a dictionary, but my DS did read a kid's encyclopedia pretty much from A-Z at one stage.

PinkFridge

Tue, Jan 30 2018, 7:35 am

salt wrote:

Not exactly a dictionary, but my DS did read a kid's encyclopedia pretty much from A-Z at one stage.

Your last name isn't Jacobs, is it? Wink

(Google A. J. Jacobs.)

FranticFrummie

Tue, Jan 30 2018, 7:45 am

In grade school, my best friends were the dictionary, the encyclopedias, and the thesaurus.

I love fancy words. Some of them are so much fun to say, like "veritable quandry."

I was interviewing a roommate once, and she asked me if I had entophobia. I said "No, I have etophobia - the fear of knowing the origin of words." She's a clinical entomologist (studies parasites). She loved both my use of words and my sense of humor, and we made great roomies.

thunderstorm

Tue, Jan 30 2018, 8:14 am

Some of my kids kept a dictionary on their night table and would read it from time to time. I do that too sometimes.

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