About a week ago, Husband mentioned that he had been to the bookstore to buy Fifi a new dictionary. We have a couple of excellent editions here, but they are dated. Our main copy is a Websters and includes color portraits of all the U.S. presidents in the front; it leaves off with Johnson!
He didn't end up making any purchase though. For the time being, we'll reference the ones we have, and the internet if we have to, because it seems that current editions include curse words! The biggies! !@#$%^&! Who knew?
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Yep. They sure do. It's no longer safe, never was really, to put a dictionary in the hands of a child without some supervision. Sad, isn't it?
And I thought my kids were learning those words from their classmates.
Our Favorite Dictionaries are:
Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language
I also recently purchased a nice Children's Dictionay. It doesn't have everything in it, but it doesn't have bad words either!
It is called: Children's Dictionay, Wordsmyth Reference Series, published by American Education Publishing. I believe I found it at Sam's for a very reasonable price. It is big--about 2 1/2 inches thick with a lot of color pictures and colors to tab the different sections. Great for kids just learning to use the dictionary.
I haven't even had a desire to look for "modern or contemporary" new edition dictionary because much of the listings are just slang terms and curse words now!
How very sad!
How sad!!!
Wow! Didn't know that.
Hmmmm... who made this little discovery for y'all?
LOL l.l.barkat!
I don't know...maybe someone told him or maybe someone was looking up "fuddle: to muddle, confuse or stupefy as with alcoholic liquor." ;)
I did NOT know that! I just checked our version out and sure enough, it's true. Wow, nothing is sacred. Does this mean public school children have access to these dictionaries?
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