Fun with the Dictionary
I am a frequent user of Merriam-Webster Online. Fortunately for me, Firefox allows one to add Merriam-Webster to the search bar.
You just type the word you want to look up into the search bar of the browser, making sure to choose “Webster” from the drop-down menu, and it takes you to the word’s page on m-w.com.
Very cool.
I use this feature multiple times a day, so I thought it would be fun to highlight some of the words I look up. Yes, I know that I am kind of a dork if I really consider dictionary use fun.
Today, I checked to see if I was using the right word from the pair decent and descent. I sometimes mix them up. In this case, I was using the right one, but it is always better to check before using the wrong word, say on my blog or in a comment on someone else’s blog.
1Dana
wrote on 6 June 2007 at 22:25
I knew there was a reason I liked you so much. I thought I was the only one who could pick up a dictionary to look up a word and actually lose track of time reading entry after entry.
Except we use Webster’s 1828, also available online!
2Anonymous
wrote on 7 June 2007 at 16:19
Webster’s 1828?? I guess if you never need to look up new words like airplane or automobile or toaster or electricity…