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haha.. that is strange. i did when i was young. to know about all new words i heard and searched for their synonyms. you know like f*** or s** or similar stuff. hehe :D
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NO - I wish I had - I'd be smarter - and could spell better
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I do it all the time.
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I never actually go all the way through, but I'll pick it up occasionally and flip through the pages. I'm constantly trying to improve my grammar and vocabulary. I carry around a notebook that I write unfamiliar words in, as well as words I have heard many times and never bothered to look up, or words I know, but had forgotten about.
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yes i have, and i learned some interesting words
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To tell you the truth, I haven't. It seems like it would be...well...boring.
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Sure who hasn't? I looked up words when I was a kid that were naughty...sex, penis, breast, intercourse...etc...before the internet days...though I would not definitions now...rather visual aids.
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Yes! Don't ever, ever do that!
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Reading the dictionary wasn't exactly fun for me, but I made it entertaining by looking up one word and while reading the definition, I'd find a word in that definition that I wanted defined and while reading THAT definition, find another word inside the definition that I needed defined...I'd learn about 10 new words in 5 short minutes.
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I started to once, but I found that it was explained in so much detail I couldn't remember the plot.
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Still do, in fact. Once I look up a word, I can't stop! It's like, "oh, look at THAT one", or, "I didn't know THAT'S what that meant". I'm such a nerd sometimes!
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Yes. Okay, next question.
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Maps too. Just love letting some of those foreign places roll of my tongue. Just me then. Oh well, I can live with that.
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Yeah to enhance my vocabulary i would have picked a word each week and tried to use it as much as possible, where possible lol.
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Yes, my brothers and I would have contests to see who could define the most words. We read the encyclopedias too. By the way singwell congrats on becoming a Sage.:)
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My review: The Webster 4th Home Edition, short on plot (the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc) and heavy on the true meaning (the idea that is intended). and it is in alphabetical order (The order of the characters of the alphabet ) A must read.
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I haven't in a while. I used to copy words out of the dictionary. I'd just sit there with my paper and copy the words plus the definitions for fun. Ya know, during the weekend.
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Although I have never read a dictionary for fun, I used to read encyclopedias for fun all the time. I started with Encyclopedia Brittanica Jr. that my parents had a set of when I was young. I moved on to Encyclopedia Brittanica at about age twelve. Nowadays, I go on Wikipedia when I want a little fun reading. My favorite sport on Wiki is to find errors in the articles.
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Yes. Its called having time on your hands. Or being bored. Or being insatiably curious.
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As a kid I read dictionaries and encyclopedias for fun. I wanted a library dictionary just like the great big ones that had every word imaginable in print. I drooled over them. Then I discovered the dictionary of theories, and Blacks dictionary of Law. Now that I have my dictionaries I can't see anything without my reading glasses.
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in a sense yes but not for fun that was how we were punished in school,we had to write out sections
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Yes, I have.
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Of course. I was doing it just before I came online.
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Yeah, when I was a kid I'd read Webster's. Now I read the Devil's Dictionary X. It's full of irreverent and cynical entries like: Amsterdam: a European city holding the ridiculous notion that the intoxicating yet relatively harmless substance, marijuana, should be a peaceful means of profit for the government and the community, rather than an excuse to spend billions of tax dollars on a futile war against its own people and constitution; the world’s own insane asylum. and mistake: 1. sixty seconds unpaid at work. 2. a vow of allegiance to a nation. 3. the loan of anything to a friend. 4. an honest remark to a woman. ~~~~~~~~~ http://sedition.com/ddx/
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No, but in school we had to copy out pages from the dictionary for punishment.
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yep. but only interesting words (the ones i didn't know). sometimes the definitions for common words are really long, and i always read those...
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All the time!!! It's so fun to learn new words!
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Yes. Build that vocabulary!
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No, but I've copied it by hand once. And man was that fun!!
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Not a dictionary, but an encyclopedia set when I was about 11 years old.
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i tried but i didnt get past the third word
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Yes, but their were too many characters, and was a nice one though and he always treated barey nicely!
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G'day Singwell, Thank you for your question. Yes I have in a manner of speaking. I enjoy doing detective work on the history of words or phrases that are occasionally asked on Answerbag such as your question on fraught which required me to look at multiple dictionaries. I am an expert in two categories one of which is the meaning of words beginning with the letter d. Regards
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I'm afraid I do. My favourite sentence I constructed from obscure dictionary words is "Defenenstraed scansorial lanugo..."
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Always. And I date-mark the words that i look up. then five years later when I look up the same word, I get to kick myself in the a--.
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You would say! I found out about sex from the dictionary!!!!!!!!
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Yes. I love words and learning new words.
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Yep, sometimes I still do. I love www.w-m.com
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i enjoy making games with the book, like asking it questions and interpreting the answers that i randomly find by flipping pages
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Yes. :D
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Yes. lol I often grab my dictionary and open it to a random page, whatever word I look at first, is the word of the day.
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All the time.it's one of my favorite books.try learning one or two words a day just for fun.it will greatly benefit your vocabulary.
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Yep, I have... I like learning new words and using them in my daily life. I live in an economically depressed area where people used to stop at 6th grade to work on their dad's farm. My mom made me learn a new word every week and use it properly in conversation. I hated it then, but I love her for it now!
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I have, and to spoil the ending.... the zebra did it ;-)
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sometimes, i mostly do that with phone books though
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I think medical dictionaries are better. One I started med school, wow. The ones with pics, can kinda make you sick at first. Not dinner material lol.
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lol...ACTUALY, yeah. me and my friend were sleeping over at my other friend's place..and we just got realy bored... so we looked up all these crazy big words and used them to annoy the hell outta everyone. haha. good times.
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no what loser would read a dictionary for fun LOSER!!!!
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yes...and the set of encyclopedias we had when I was young.
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When I was in grade school, for fun, our teacher would have us all pull out dictionaries and then for 1hr we'd play games using the books, looking up different words to win pop from the vending machine.
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yes, when i was younger. i can't get enough of reading.
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Yes.
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yes.
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I did when I was in prison. It was that or the Bible, and I can only read the Bible so many times before I need a change of pace!
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Yes it's under 'f'.
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yes its intoxacating
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I used to have a pocket dictionary up until about a month ago. I looked through it just for fun at least once a day. Such a good way to widen ones vocabulary.
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not so much read as play games ... two people required one had the dictionary and either reads a word or a definition and the second person has to guess either the word of the definition ... i lead a very exciting life
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Tried once but got sick of it after like two words.
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Yes. English and foreign language.
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I like looking up big obscure words that not many people know e.g. hermaphrodite and quagmire.
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anything is better than just listening to Mr.Trueblood blabber on about word origins
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Haven't done so in an age but I think i will tonight. When we were students and broke, my flatmates, when they wanted to tease me, used to play the dictionary game on me: open to a random page, pick a word and ask for the definition or meaning. This went on for two years and all because I knew what a Pyre was... damn being an only child who wasn't allowed to play out with the local rough kids!
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I practice Gregg Shorthand as a hobby, and I am working my way through the Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary, Large Print Edition. I do a half-a-page a day, just the words, not the definitions. I am currently on the letter D, and as of May 1st, I will have completed my first year. I will have completed the whole dictionary in June of 2010. I really enjoy doing it.
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Many times. I'm especially interested in etymology and language change, and I wish AB had a language category. Dictionaries have limitations, though. They can't keep up with new-word and new-phrase formation, and American dictionaries don't do terribly well on words and phrases that are used in other kinds of English (e.g., Aussie English, British English, etc.). The best way to figure out what a new word or phrase means is to google it and see what comes up. Sometimes a straightforward definition is available. Sometimes I have to look at the word or phrase in numerous contexts and figure out its meaning that way. An example is "bloody-minded," used in England but not here. I'm pretty sure, based on usage in contexts, that it means infuriatingly stubborn and contrary.
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Not the whole thing..but I still enjoy looking up little used words from time to time.
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no i just looked through it once and someone asked me what i was doing and when i told them they laughed at me,so i stopped.
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Yes.
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yeah, up until along and then i got bored...but you can tst me on definitions up to that point
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Yes, as a child, there was an old dictionary lying around. It was the only book in the house. I learned a lot from it. I still think it's fun.
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Yep, I even used to carry around this huge Encyclopedic Dictionary at school.
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I dont think i have ever been that bored to be honest!
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yes..and the encyclopedia.
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i have. i've sat in an english class already and ignored what the teacher was teaching and just read the dictionary. did you know a "dork" is actually a whale penis?
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Yes, and it has been relatively often.
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when i was little before i could read i would take the biggest book off our shelf (which happened to be the dictionary) and pretend to read it. i read the dictionary to my mom once and she told me it was upside down.
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yes, but it was one from 1830, with pictures in it.
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Not nearly enough. My favorite bit is the derivation. Learning where words come from and what they originally meant is quite enlightening.
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Yes.
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yes, I love to know every thing there is too know...
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yes, all the time! in an actual book, electronic and even on-line! as im looking for my word i see others that look too interesting to miss so i go to look them up as well. next thing i know ive been there for an hour or more. im even getting excited about words just writing this....how sad am i????? ha ha ha
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Yes. And because if you have read a dictionary, you have read every book. The words are just in an another order.
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All the time.
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I spent one delicious afternoon in my kitchen looking up a 100 year old dictionary which also listed old sayings such as "Love, like smoke, can never hide" and the best higlights of history and famous people from the beginning of time. Enthralled and informed. Enlightening.
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I have just bought a great dictionary "The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary",which is fun to read.The illustrations are fab and make wonderful reading.
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YES! ...but i got the 8th page of the A's and it drove me nuts! so i gave up.
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Yes, quite an exhilirating read I must say.
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yes many times
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yeah, thats how i augment my vocabulary. i love learning!
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I did it about a year ago.
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not for fun, but if i hear a word i dont know, i look it up. then i see more words in the dictionary i dont know, and from there, i start skimming through, reading words i dont know. but usually after that, i forget them.
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Russian- English dictionary, I `can`t stop reading if I need to find even just one word
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Yes, and encyclopedias, too.
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Yes! The origins of the word Orgasm come from the latin, meaning 'swelling'. I love funny books :D
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Im sure she is quite capable of reading it on her own.
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Yes and our Funk & Wagnall encyclopedia set.
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I've looked up a few words out of curiousity .. haven't read the whole thing though!
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All the time. Words are a passion of mine.
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Yes, and now thanks to the dictionary, I have a very expanded vocabulary.
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Yeah, I'm still dumb.
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