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Beverley Dickson's avatar

Hahaha I remember those days of dictionaries but I haven’t used a physical one for a while. I use an online one/thesaurus. I love what you brought out in this about the algorithms- food for thought for sure.

Georg Cook's avatar

Fabulous thought provoking essay 🩵

Sally Jupe's avatar

Well said Matthew. I could not agree with you more.

I also love the feel of the thin, smooth paper in my dictionaries before I even get to the actual pages I want, or indeed finish upon some time later. And it taught us the necessity of knowing the alphabet and how to basically spell or guess the word we were looking for very early on. Oddly enough Austin Kleon was only talking about the value of physical dictionaries and Thesaurus he still uses today on the Joanna Penn podcast this week. P.S. Love the one collar two socks! Not heard that one. Good Luck with the deadline.