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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

~Drew Barrymore

Topics: Collect Convey Dictionaries Dictionary English English Language Intention Kid Language Old Powerful Sensitive Studied Think Very Words I Think

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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

~Elgin Baylor

Topics: Definition Dictionary Greatness Jordan Look Michael Michael Jordan Say Up Will You

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I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

~Emma Kenney

Topics: Dictionary Once Read Tried Work

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There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Dictionary Few Get Good Publicity Very Ways

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Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Awesome Back Book Consumers Deciding Dictionary Flip Go Good Great Metric Most Must Over Says Then Use Want Whether

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There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Any Because Dictionary Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Print Space Them Thousands Today Words

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We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Because Dictionary Find Go Look Means Most Out People Stupid Think Want Word

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Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Been Conversations Could Dictionary Editors Exactly Exactly What Like People Twitter Which Wishing Years

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Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Day Definition Dictionary Every Every Day Know Learned Looking Love Most Reading Them Up Use Words You

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If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Annoy Anything Definition Dictionary Guaranteed Habit Journalistic Starting Story

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