dictionaries

I still remember leafing through the chronological order of a bulky vocabulary book to find a word’s meaning. Dictionaries are the only databases of meaning we had when there were no smartphones. The arduous task of exploring words and their meanings was tiresome but it was fun back then. Want to know the meaning of “Sedulous?” Don’t you care about the spelling, Google will correct it in its humblest way “Did you mean: Sedulous?” Although the results page throws a million web links at you, skimming through the initial two lines is enough for you to get what you want.…