I have heard rumors on Thoughts about a book called a Dictionary, that contains all correct spellings, and even has definitions of correctly spelled words - imagine that, what a resource that would be for literate people!
Just when you think you have heard it all, and it cant get any better, some dude named "Webster" put every single word in alphabetical order!
I heard that college students use them occasionally, and that Webster and his gay partner "Merriam" even wrote a book just for students, called a "Collegiate Dictionary" and it's pretty cool. And as the two endeavored into their courtship, they felt the need to expand their horizons and create an "unabridged" version, which contains words that are not really even words; words "from the closet" so to speak, that have a social relevance more than a literary relevance. I heard it even contains that famous utterance from Homer Simpson, "doh"; pretty cool, huh [I think "huh" is also in that version].
There is also the "New Revised Collegiate Dictionary", which makes me wonder why anyone would want to buy a version that wasn't "revised", wouldn't you be paying for words you're not getting; and if it's "new" wouldn't it just be a good practice of the publisher to revise it also, and do that every year? Kind of like a manufacturers saying a product is "New and Improved" - Why the hell would anybody want to buy the stuff that is not new, and not improved?
For those movers and shakers looking to take the world by storm, there is a "Pocket Dictionary" and I think it even comes with a free pocket protector for your pens also. As if I don't carry enough shit in my pockets already, now I need a dictionary?
Here are a few types of dictionaries that I know of:
Collegiate Dictionary
New and Revised
New
Revised
Unabridged [note that I have never seen an "abridged dictionary"]
Reverse Dictionary
Deluxe
Law Dictionary
Pocket Dictionary
Contemporary
Conjugated
Oxford
New Oxford
Oxford English
Oxford American
Pseudo-dictionary
International Dictionary
Bilingual ·
Biographical
Conceptual
Defining
Electronic
Encyclopedic
LSP
Machine-readable
Maximizing
Medical
Minimizing
Monolingual learner's
Multi-field
Phonetic
Picture
Rhyming
Rime
Single-field
Specialized
Sub-field
Visual
Universal Dictionary
[this list is partially credited to Wikipedia]
And you wonder why it takes me so long to write a damned blog, and why there is still so many spelling errors ... ?
- Thom
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