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Jetblack
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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?
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Jewishfoodie
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Mon, Jan 29 2018, 10:55 pm
I only read it for the words..
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daagahminayin
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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.
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bigsis144
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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!
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sunshine5
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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.
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amother
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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
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!!!
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salt
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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.
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PinkFridge
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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?
(Google A. J. Jacobs.)
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FranticFrummie
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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.
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thunderstorm
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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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