There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.
We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.