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Following on from the Handwriting thread, do you own a dictionary?
We have six in our house, ranging from my old, tatty school dictionary up to a big modern 1,000 plus pages one with illustrations. The latter is my favourite! One or other of them are often in use as both my husband and I are crossword addicts.
We also possess a Thesaurus and two French dictionaries.
We have dictionaries, but I always say my OH is cheating when he uses the dictionary for crosswords - I maintain that you should do crosswords without resorting to a dictionary - just a thought
I love dictionaries. Don't like to use the Spell Check on a Computer. I find that by actually thinking about the spelling of a word or it's meaning, and then taking the time to look it up, helps greatly in remembering it!
I love dictionaries and still have one that was given to me when I was 11 years old. It is called Words and it is brilliant. Also have thesaurus, dictionary of quotations, etc.
I understand they are not going to publish the Oxford dictionary any more because of the increased use of the computer - shame.
I love dictionarys but last time we moved loads of stuff went missing and among that was a box of cookery books and my 3 dictionarys. I have never got round to replacing it either.