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Old 06-04-2011, 07:05 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by DMB View Post
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... 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.
Did you change it from the American English dictionary to the British English? The Kindle comes with both, but Kindles sold in the U.S. have the American English as the default dictionary.

This is not to say the British one would've for sure had those words, but the odds are much better.

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