“Dictionaries reward you for paying attention, both to the things you consume and to your own curiosity”: in the age of digital searching, Rachel del Valle recommends using a (print) dictionary.
I think though that she’s wrong on one point: a dictionary is a rabbit hole, or can be.
Related reading
All OCA dictionary posts (Pinboard)
[I have the same Webster’s Second that Del Valle writes about. (It has dazzling endpapers.) But I wasn’t lucky enough to find my copy on the street.]
Friday, September 17, 2021
Using a dictionary
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