The Dictionary
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The dictionary is invaluable. So many times when I have looked up a word that I thought I understood its meaning I have found so much more depth to the word....other meanings of a word that are not used in common everyday speech. Take the word "dictionary" itself.
a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.
a reference work on a particular subject, the items of which are typically arranged in alphabetical order.
in computing.. a set of words or other text strings made for use in applications such as spelling checkers.
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The English language is especially complicated in that the words in English are taken from many different roots in other languages. It must be very difficult for others to learn English. Not just the vocabulary but the sentence structure and grammar.
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I love English, since I was in junior high school my parents put me in a course called "Victory English Course" which is located in the middle of our small town.
I love grammar, and I got good grades in my final exams.
Oh yeah... I also won a Scrabble competition when I was in high school, as a prize I was given an Oxford Dictionary.
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By the way, do you also like to play with this arrangement of words @jiva34?
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Wow, you won an dictionary, an English one bit your English isn't UK English 🤔
I like Scrabble as well but we play it in Dutch. They games are not for sale in English.
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Here in Indonesia, the English taught is more geared towards American accents.
Honestly, I'm not good at spoken English, and that's why I love #wewrite.
That's amazing. For most people English is very difficult. But it is necessary since the English speaking nations, especially the US are so influential.
That is not the reason. "we" voted for a world language and that is why English is spoken.
The influence would be a good reason to avoid knkwing the language. It would make the world more peaceful.
If it comes to films and so on most countries do not show it in English at all but their own language (not very helpful if you want to learn a language).
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It may be that English at least as it spoken in the US has been influenced by the "melting pot" in the US. People coming from everywhere else bringing words with them over the few hundred years has become part of the vocabulary.
Looking at a dictionary we can see the roots of the words are traced out to many different sources.
US English and British English are a little different. Even the spellings vary. Similar enough to get by without a translator though.
It was my punishment at secondary school. Learning the dictionary by head. I was good at it and the principal hated it (read: hated me).
What I hate is how the meaning of words has changed and is abused, how people are brainwashed and too lazy to search for the meaning which involves feelings as well.
Just like you I (and so do my children) check it daily several times.
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