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@FlockOfCats Oh god. My grandmother had this humungous unabridged dictionary, and I did read it as a kid. Oh god.
@aspeed I still read dictionaries sometimes, and I'm 41
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@aspeed @FlockOfCats There's a book about the making of that dictionary.
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory Stamper
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_06/true_color.html
@pussreboots @aspeed @FlockOfCats and it's hilarious at times!
It's a very silly and informative book.
@aspeed @FlockOfCats Yup, there was a big old one in the dining room when I was a kid at home, used to find a word, then pick another from the definition and go and look at that one, and so on. I have it somewhere waiting to finally have a real home as pride of place on a bookshelf.