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How to Use a Dictionary

Dictionaries are overflowing with interesting information! Here's how to get the most out of your dictionary.


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How to Use a Dictionary

 

The best way to find information in the dictionary

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When Body Parts Are Also Verbs

 

Head, shoulders, metaphors, and toes

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There, They're, Their

 

There, there. We'll sort it out.

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I vs. Me

 

'Between you and __'? Simple guidance for a tricky pronoun.

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What is a malaprop?

 

We'll tell you all the perpendiculars

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Webster's Dictionary of 1864

 

The landmark edition that transformed the way dictionaries are made.

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An Abbreviated History of American English Spelling

 

Soop, wimmen, and headake did not make the cut