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...
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...
Wow. She's well on her way to a stellar vocabulary.
ReplyDeleteWhat 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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 :)
ReplyDeleteSo very cool. Love this.
ReplyDeleteGood 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.)
ReplyDeleteI 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! ^_^
ReplyDeleteThis 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!
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases... oh, I loved them all! Not a story in any of them... but had everything you needed to make one up!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on raising a curious mind!