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Originally Posted by DMB
I tried using the Kindle dictionary look-up recently -- and it was totally useless! I was reading a novel written in the 1930s where a large chunk was a narrative by an elderly Scottish character, using a great deal of Scots vocabulary. I'm not Scottish, and although I've come across quite a few Scots words before, there were a few I didn't know at all. The dictionary didn't seem to have any of the Scots words at all. So I seriously doubt its efficacy for unfamiliar forms of English.
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I wouldn't expect a dictionary of American English to have any Scottish words....
I am reading books written by English writers on my Sony, and have changed to the Oxford dictionary because of it. It has entries for English words and slang that the default American dictionary does not.