Not to mention, is AprilHare really planning on using the dictionary to look up words like 'gobsmacked' or 'truck'? Maybe it's just me, but I got over the fascination of looking up common words in the dictionary when I was maybe 8 or 9. I use dictionaries all the time, but to look up slightly more difficult words like 'numinous' and 'sesquipedalian'--words that should appear in a good English dictionary regardless of which particular flavo(u)r of English it's targetted at.
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