Of Words and Choices.


[Submitted by _Gleam_ on January 16, 2008, 11:48 pm]

 

    Who would have known that buying a dictionary comes with so much stress and excitement. A quality dictionary, at that. I made the mistake of buying a dictionary on sale a few years back, and you know those don’t match to kick-ass quality dictionary with like you know cool-ass words. I didn’t even end up using that damn thing, I still kept and used my old beat up dictionary I’ve had since… 1996 instead. Yeah I know, that’s been waaay too long, there’s like a gazillion new words out since then and it hurt me to use it in that state so I decided to finally put it to rest! I’ll probably drop it into the recycling bin tomorrow or something.  

    So yeah, there I was standing there in front a huge shelf of dictionaries, you gotta choose from a huge selection, true? And I was like, I do not know how to choose the ‘best’ dictionary though I knew I didn’t want to get Oxford ‘coz I am so not into Brit English (anymore), but yeah I managed to settle for one without being overly paranoid about words I might be missing out on. :) 
 
    Yes, I love my new dictionary.