You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog
- The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of.
- You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know.
- Indeed, if you look up those particular words in the dictionary that comes with your computer -- on my Mac, it's the New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd Edition -- you'll be rewarded with...
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- The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of.
- You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know.
- Indeed, if you look up those particular words in the dictionary that comes with your computer -- on my Mac, it's the New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd Edition -- you'll be rewarded with...
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