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if you have spent any amount of time reading the dictionary, you may find it interesting that it too has the occasionaL misspelling or error. This is not to say the dictionary is a bad book, it's one of my favourites (i got a big one teehee, uh unabridged i should say) but it snot perfect. i also would not recommend reading it cover to cover looking for errors, yer liable to go mad before you get to ampersand (n. a character or symbol for and). i like to flip a random page and find a word that i have no clue of it's definition, and read that. often there is a word in the definition that i don't know (or couldn't define) and i look that up, or pick another. the fun can last for hours, or minutes, or years & years & ...

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You're telling me this isn't the Oxford English Dictionary?!?

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