“ Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson
“ Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and res… Initially NO
“ I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It… Janet Frame
“ FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as "a statement of the precise meaning of a word." A small, perhaps neg… Mort W. Lumsden
“ One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary... Duncan McNaughton
