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OP Originally Posted By: AWADmailHave you ever opened a dictionary to look up a word, only to find yourself distracted by another word on the page? The definition of that word steers you to yet another, some two hundred pages ahead, and before you know it your fingers are cavorting as if in a random dance on the leaves of the lexicon.
This week's words in AWAD were chosen by following precisely that route. You could call it Brownian Motion, Browsing the Web, or Looking Words Up In a Dictionary.
I think many of us here fit this category. And, probably, many of us have our own names for this process. I call it "reading the dictionary". What do you call it?
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