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Reading Dictionaries - Research Paper

Reading Dictionaries

At the very sight of this title you would perhaps say to yourself, 'Only fools would do that. I know better.' But I've heard of several famous men who did read dictionaries. They gloried in dictionaries and and read them with the delight that some travellars find in guidebooks and timetables.Robert Browning,the English poet, when he determined to make poetry his career, read every word in Johnson's Dictionary. John Ruskin, the English author, wrote to the editor of the Great Oxford Dictionary that he had read and studied every word in its first volume. Henry Thomas Buckle, the English historian, once solemnly stated that a certain dictionary was " one of the few dictionaries I have ...

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common words and phrases can be very easily picked up by English speaking boys and girls. But they are not likely to be acquired by Myanmar or other non- English- speaking students without any special effort in this respect. The reading of articles on common words in dictionaries is no doubt a great ...

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Added: 5/16/2011 08:38:05 AM
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Category: Creative Writing
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