Okay, I searched and this topic didn't come up in the results.
And I hope I don't inconvenience anyone who thinks it's a YART.

Well, someone who is interested in words and language should have a good dictionary, one that's really big and comprehensive. I have always had "The World Book Dictionary." I don't know if anyone has heard of it, but mine is kind of an old dictionary from about the '70's or something which was handed down from my parents. I really like it, but I don't know if it's good (i.e. if it fits some arbitrary opinion of what is "good"). I'm thinking of getting a different dictionary (which is at least up-to-date). What do you suggest? OED? Websters?

Dictionaries are pretty "analog" nowadays, any word that I need to know I just look it up on Answers.com or Onelook. But the Internet is not really good for browsing, just flipping through pages and reading words that catch your attention.

So what do you think?

Last edited by mechanesthesia; 02/09/06 07:00 PM.
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