Does anyone still use a dictionary?

I use a dictionary all the time…online.

I was referring to a hard cover print version Dutchy. My bad. Should have been more specific.

There, fixed it. : )

No.

Of course. Got quite a few here.

Yes, often.

I do. You can get a quick, adequate answer online, like if you just can’t remember the definition of ‘chthonic’ even though you’ve looked it up forty times.

But if you want a comprehensive definition, along with etymology and historical examples and variants and closely related neighboring words, a dictionary is the resource of choice. I have numerous dictionaries, some large and comprehensive and some for specific fields, and I use them all at one time or another.

Yes. I have three.

I have two dictionaries that live on the corner of my home office desk. One American Heritage and a Black’s. I rarely look at internet dictionary but if I do it’s The Free Dictionary because if gives definitions from several different dictionaries. Sometimes that is helpful. It also has some barebones professtional dictionaries….they are not useful for professional purposes but good for the general population to look up medical terms ect.

I used to have a dictionary my family won in a drawing in the 60s. Man I had that thing for decades. It had the history of language evolution in the back. I practically read it from cover to cover.

Yes, but I use my thesaurus more often. When you need the right word, demand mayonnaise.

I still have an Oxford dictionary from 2000. It is quite handy to provide weight on the lowest bookshelf. I also use it to weigh things down when gluing something together. Sometimes I even use it as a step in the even I can’t reach something as it is about 7 inches thick.