Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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!'
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
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.
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.
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