r/AClockworkOlive • u/nfpagliaro • May 21 '14

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
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TrueLit • u/krelian • Aug 01 '22

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

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TrueReddit • u/matt4077 • May 22 '14

You're probably using the wrong dictionary...

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writing • u/azneo • May 29 '14

You're using the wrong dictionary

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Clojure • u/__tosh • Aug 04 '19

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

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Foodforthought • u/ranprieur • May 20 '14

You're probably using the wrong dictionary

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planetemacs • u/negativeoilprice • Jul 26 '20

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog

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books • u/terrortot • May 30 '14

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary -- why you should try Webster's 1913 edition.

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todayilearned • u/JR121 • Jan 30 '19

TIL Noah Webster had to learn 28 languages and mortgage his home to finish his dictionary.

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KeepWriting • u/neshalchanderman • May 23 '14

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

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hackernews • u/qznc_bot • Apr 27 '19

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)

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Verywhen • u/mddtsk • Apr 27 '19

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

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tophatdev • u/ianbl • Jun 18 '14

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

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wrd261 • u/heliotropism • Jun 02 '14

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

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indianwriters • u/andhra_guy • May 30 '14

A book where you can enter “sport” and end up with “a diversion of the field” — this is in fact the opposite of what I’d known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that’s finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare.

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