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ardeegee · 06-08-2011, 05:50 PM

As a spin-off from the "Why does an ereader need a dictionary?" thread, I thought it might be fun to list some of the items in your log of looked-up words. Here are some of mine, a combination of words I didn't have a clue about, words I was pretty sure I knew, but need to double-check, and words that I knew, but it struck me to wonder how the (somewhat mediocre) Sony dictionary defined it.

Recently logged words:

halal
haram
bespoke
Alexandretta
Mahdi
Isakederun
deliquesce
heterodox
Tabriz
Qom
melliferous
halva
semolina
prig
cosmopolis
semiosis
elision
krall
salubrious
apparatchiks
kenning
louche
recondite
eisteddfods
polysemy
ubiquinone
mooncalf
insouciance
lugubrious
irascible
aspidistra
quintessence
dudgeon
secateurs
skiving
agapanthus
hagridden
bracken
punting
Satsuma
popinjay
pouffe
mugwump

(I see that 13 of the words from this list aren't in Firefox's spellchecker.)

06-08-2011, 05:50 PM	#1
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	Words in your dictionary word log? As a spin-off from the "Why does an ereader need a dictionary?" thread, I thought it might be fun to list some of the items in your log of looked-up words. Here are some of mine, a combination of words I didn't have a clue about, words I was pretty sure I knew, but need to double-check, and words that I knew, but it struck me to wonder how the (somewhat mediocre) Sony dictionary defined it. Recently logged words: halal haram bespoke Alexandretta Mahdi Isakederun deliquesce heterodox Tabriz Qom melliferous halva semolina prig cosmopolis semiosis elision krall salubrious apparatchiks kenning louche recondite eisteddfods polysemy ubiquinone mooncalf insouciance lugubrious irascible aspidistra quintessence dudgeon secateurs skiving agapanthus hagridden bracken punting Satsuma popinjay pouffe mugwump (I see that 13 of the words from this list aren't in Firefox's spellchecker.)