My legacy

My 7-year-old today: "Mama, a dictionary is awesome."

She discovered this on her own, without any influencing praises on my part. Now she wants her own dictionary for Christmas--"a real one, because the kid dictionary doesn't have enough words I don't know."

Reminds me of when I was fourteen and had the Oxford English Dictionary on my Christmas list...

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  1. Wow. She's well on her way to a stellar vocabulary.

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  2. What a fun thing to get to hear! And have you seen the art prints on Etsy that are printed on a dictionary page? I have a feeling she'd love one of those! I have one in my office with an ampersand on it.

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  3. I agree with Lucy! It was the one book at home I never tired looking at ... always some treasures to find. We had an Oxford in our lab when I was a graduate student :)

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  4. Good for her! Maybe she'll be a writer too. I was so excited when I got an unabridged dictionary for my 16th birthday. (Alas, no one else in the family understood my excitement.)

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  5. I still keep one at my desk at work and one on my bookshelf at home... and use them on a regular basis. Then again, I do not own or use an iPhone, so call me a troglodyte! ^_^

    This reminds me of learning to spell "ENCYCLOPEDIA" at her age... it so fascinated me that I just had to read a whole set. As circumstance would have it, my mom was purchasing a set of Funk & Wagnalls one volume at a time as part of six-month-long supermarket promotion... so I read one volume a week for the next half-year. I think I drove my parents crazy with all of the new questions created by THAT curiosity!

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  6. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases... oh, I loved them all! Not a story in any of them... but had everything you needed to make one up!
    Congratulations on raising a curious mind!

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