My dad, who is a genius, used to read the dictionary as a kid. He majored in English. My family used to play a game sometimes where Mom would take a huge old dictionary, find an obscure word, and then everyone would make up meanings for it. (This was before/separate from the game “Balderdash.”) At least half the time, Dad already knew the word, or could make an educated guess based on word roots. To this day, we tease him when he uses an obscure word in a sermon; he calls them “normal, everyday words.” To which we retort, “maybe in Oxford.”
I used to read our old encyclopedias for fun. They were from 1969, so many of the countries were wrong. Today I’d bet that maybe a quarter are still in existence in the same form now. You figure most of Eastern Europe has changed. Several African nations changed as well. BTW the first word of course was aardvark, The second word? Aardwolf! Go Comics spellcheck thinks it doesn’t exist!
jagedlo over 3 years ago
And Broomie may have to use it to look up the words Gaylord used in the second panel…
pschearer Premium Member over 3 years ago
But the author sure has a way with words!
dercoggins Premium Member over 3 years ago
I recently heard about epistolary books – they are written in the form of letters. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is an example.
wiatr over 3 years ago
Wordy, isn’t it?
cubswin2016 over 3 years ago
The ending of that book is so predictable.
Sanspareil over 3 years ago
By the pages in the dictionary she already read, she should have understood what a Dictionary is!
Qiset over 3 years ago
What bothers me most is that it is incomplete almost as soon as it it published.
descabro over 3 years ago
zzzzzzzzz
awcoffman over 3 years ago
Try the phone book (if you can still find one). It has an awesome cast of characters.
petermerck over 3 years ago
There can’t be that many words. I think the author made some up.
Michael G. over 3 years ago
Too many characters, introduced too quickly.
WentBrown over 3 years ago
lol
karmakat01 over 3 years ago
makes you wonder if she even knows real books, if we didn’t knew she loved romance novels already.
cuzinron47 over 3 years ago
You lost her at ‘clarify’.
jbarnes over 3 years ago
One month, my tween daughter asked me to read the dictionary every night at bedtime to help her get sleepy. It didn’t work well. Too exciting.
Richard Perry over 3 years ago
Zzyzx, CA
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
Yo, Gaylord! I used to enjoy reading the dictionary! …Still do!
Taracinablue over 3 years ago
My dad, who is a genius, used to read the dictionary as a kid. He majored in English. My family used to play a game sometimes where Mom would take a huge old dictionary, find an obscure word, and then everyone would make up meanings for it. (This was before/separate from the game “Balderdash.”) At least half the time, Dad already knew the word, or could make an educated guess based on word roots. To this day, we tease him when he uses an obscure word in a sermon; he calls them “normal, everyday words.” To which we retort, “maybe in Oxford.”
felinefan55 Premium Member over 3 years ago
I used to read our old encyclopedias for fun. They were from 1969, so many of the countries were wrong. Today I’d bet that maybe a quarter are still in existence in the same form now. You figure most of Eastern Europe has changed. Several African nations changed as well. BTW the first word of course was aardvark, The second word? Aardwolf! Go Comics spellcheck thinks it doesn’t exist!