how often do you use a dictionary?
 

i've noticed in just about every hous ei enter, there's a dictionary on the bookshelf. but how often do you ACTUALLY use your dictionary? are you constantly hitting up the dictionary or dictionary.com to get a deeper meaning to what you're reading? is your vocabulary ever expanding? or are you satisfied making due with the context?

Daily.

8chres

daily for me too :thumbsup

I only look up words when I need to make sure of their spelling.

Very rarely i find a word i dont know. I dont mean this in arrogance but I have a knack for words..a lot of them come from reading.

When i was in the 6th grade i was a smart yet rebellious youth. My mother was called into speak with my teacher and the lady actually said to my mother, "He has a higher vocabulary language than me and he uses it. Sometimes its intimidating."

this of course was after her saying what a noisy little fuck I was ...


obviously you can see I care not about my punctuation :winkwink:

grammar is for pussies, extravagant vocabularies are where it's at...

My vocabulary is extensive...Therefore, I don't need to use one often

OMG, it's one of the reasons I want a good cell with net access - I swear I use Google every 5 minutes. I hate sitting in an airport reading a book w/o Google access :(

Not too often - but I have the Websters Dictionary plug-in for Firefox for those times when someone uses words with more than 7 letters in it :)

FUckin A :thumbsup

Wow I'll have to get that. Is there a thesaurus? I use a thesaurus when trying to create a good domain name.

the thesaurus is a badass resource. i think a lot of my expanded vocabluary grew out of using the thesaurus while writing...

I downloaded the new Firefox and it tells me I have a misspelled word in posts and gives me suggestions. What's the plug in, Bama?!!

Google has a nifty little lookup tool that you can type into the search box...

define:someobscureword

Not sure when I last used a physical dictionary.

I <3 you!!

not very often

I like it as a decorative tool... one of those bigass ones on a pedestal or a lectern... makes it look very academic in our house.

I use the online webster's to check words for spelling and meaning, proper usage etc.

Maybe 3-5 or more times per week.

ya i use dictionary.com a lot for spelling and meaning of words im not sure about. thesaurus.com is cool for finding good domains.

www.dictionary.com - at least daily.
www.thesaurus.com - at least weekly.

I haven't owned a dictionary since I was at school, which is not something of which I am proud. It is simply that if I had one, I wouldn't use it because I write quickly and don't like interrupting the flow.

I could probably get away with that if I were a faster and more accurate typist. Unfortunately too in the circumstances, I have the bad habit of rarely reading, let alone editing things I have written.

Daily, but I use a widget not the book.

I uz won all da tyme. Y u azzkin?

I used to have three dictionaries. Nowadays I don't use an actual book, I just look it up on the internet (dictionary.com).

I don't use it every day, but I'll use it at least a few times on a weekly basis. I also use a thesaurus pretty often, too.

I never use a dictionary....but use google spell check on my toolbar quite a lot:)

I forgot to mention I have bookmarks set up in Firefox so I can just type in "dict <word>" or "thes <word> in the address bar and it'll look up the word at dictionary.com or thesaurus.com.

Only when 2house posts.

only the one on my computer

I use Webster online all the time

This quote reminded me Of Jack, cept jack seemed pretty pristine with his punctuation and grammar as well as rhetorical vocabulary novels

id say safely once a week

the little red line comes up under the miss spelled word, that's how I know it needs to be corrected

I probably use it a couple times a month.

i use dictionary.com maybe once or twice a month, when something just doesn't look right after i've started at it for five minutes. :)

Daily for sure!

daily i think...i like my spelling to be on point

Dictionary.com daily

I use my dictionary all the time....it's helping to hold up one corner of my favorite/lucky desk!!!

Once a week perhaps... Some words I never spell right

Several times a day.

dictionary.com, many times daily.

i think i probably dictionary.com'd a good 40-50 words today, hah...

Not very often if I am honest. When I am online and I have a spelling question I tend to just stick a word into google and see if it corrects my spelling.

google define <WORD>

i use that for word lookup

Daily.
I look up both english words and strange words in my native language to expand my vocabulary

daily for multi languages :)

before when i was studying, ill just used it to know the meaning of the word..but now i need to read it everyday for me to learn new word, its meaning, spelling and pronunciation.. :winkwink:

Ha Ha I don't remember the last time I looked in a dictionary, I just automatically have spell check lol

Every minute :P

just use google search