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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
One of the ways that people learn is from the past. What you are saying is that the past is too much for teh little darlings and we must update for them. My mom's favorite response when I came to her about a new word? Handing me a dictionary. And the OED works wonders.
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My mother taught English, and every dinner with the family became part of an ongoing discussion on usage. People were always running to the dictionary in the middle of our meal until, finally, my mother bought a stand for Webster's International and put it next to the table.
To this day, I have a collection of dictionaries of various languages, disciplines, regions and vintages -- partly because I like to write in old-fashioned idioms. I've also helped to name books and bands by exploring the OED. (Two examples:
Distorture and The Saqqara Dogs.)