Dictionaries
At my family home, my mother always kept a large dictionary on a bookshelf near our kitchen table. Whenever we would ask her how to spell a word, she always replied, "look it up," and would pass us the dictionary. That little phrase was such an annoyance back then; however, I have learned her logic and now respect the value of her forcing us to look up words ourselves. So now, as I research dictionaries, I can still hear my mother say, "look it up!" The dictionaries I researched for this project include:
|