The moral of this story is to own more than one dictionary. Preferably several of increasing size. It's not like wearing two watches and then never being certain what time it is. It's more like never getting stuck with something like this:
res • o • nance (rez-uh-nuhns) n. The quality or condition of being resonant.
res • o • nant (rez-uh-nuhnt) adj. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting resonance.
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You could go mad over that one! Also, when engaging in a dictionary "war" there are no injuries brought about by two parties scrambling for the same volume in a frenzied effort to prove each other wrong. :)
ReplyDeleteI might add... there is fun to be had in comparing the differences and out-right omissions between two versions. Isn't that so, Bee?
ReplyDeleteYep! It's interesting, the digression of definitions between two or more dictionaries.
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