[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[Anny Ballardini]

This unluckily happens to me also with the net. If I am not pressed by a lot
of things to do, I just loose track and get lost anywhere up here.


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> At the risk of old-fogeyism, I want to mourn the declining use of the print
> dictionary (or encyclopedia, for that matter).
> Nine times out of ten, flipping thru pages, trying to find the
> particular word/entry I was looking for (and sometimes the
> alphabetic sequence would escape me), I'd stumble across a strange or
> unusual word (a new world, one might say).
> You lose some of that randomness, the sidetracking that goes on, with
> the online versions.
> Finnegan
>



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