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Old 02-13-2009, 08:27 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Simple example of what dictionary lookup is useful for:

In "King Solomon's Mines", the heroes of the story are travelling across the desert when they come across a herd of "quagga". Do you know what a "quagga" is? I do, because I looked it up in the dictionary of my CyBook!
I have a handy pocket dictionary in my nightstand for things like that.
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