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I Miss The Old Dictionary
by Jay Sanders
April 8th, 2019
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Every teacher I had in elementary school wouldn’t let us say the word ain’t. In their classrooms, it was a curse word. “Ain’t ain’t a word because it ain’t in the dictionary,†they would tell us.
The joke was lost on us.
“But you just said…â€
The point however was not lost on us. The dictionary was the standard.
Times have changed. Now the dictionary is online. And the online version includes the word ain’t, along with quite a few other words that would make the heads of my old teachers spin.
Dictionary.com has added over 300 new words to their database. I know what I’m about to say will make me sound old. That’s fine. But these new words make miss the old dictionary.
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I often wish people would use a dictionary.... any dictionary, old or new, but some kind of dictionary!