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Post by redshank on Oct 16, 2024 10:24:50 GMT
What dictionary do you have.I have a 1990 Collins English Dictionary.I have looked in bookshops for later printed dictionaries but none come up to the standard and information on a word than the one I have.
Most very PC,control the language control the people.
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Post by tommydark on Oct 16, 2024 10:43:42 GMT
I love them and have several posh ones.
But favourite being
Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus (2012 edition)
But I still spell words wrongly a lot.
And post here lower case when certain words should start with a capital(laziness!)
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Post by Thor on Oct 16, 2024 12:12:33 GMT
Whatever Google throws up! Collins, Oxford.
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Post by redshank on Oct 16, 2024 15:25:04 GMT
They are a great read,they also tell how to say the word you have looked up.
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Post by dohnut on Oct 16, 2024 16:36:45 GMT
Small Oxford English. Had it since secondary school days. Old address in Clapton written inside, real ink too. Well thumbed. Now I use Google.
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Post by brentwoodo on Oct 16, 2024 16:41:20 GMT
I have an English to Spanish one, that’s about it.
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Post by redshank on Oct 17, 2024 10:35:58 GMT
I have an 1890 leather bound English to French and French to English book that cost 10p in a charity shop,it even has a brass clasp as it is a travel companion.It has such phrases as 'how is the partridge sir' so meant for the wealthy traveller,again a good read at times with late 19th century language.
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