[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[James Cervantes]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM, <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.
>

Well,this site does that one better:

http://www.fourteenminutes.com/fun/words/


-- Jim
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