Dictionaries

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), with usage of information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon.

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of English
The New Oxford American Dictionary
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Collins Robert French Dictionary: French-English English-French

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Ira Gershwin
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek. ...more
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Cassandra Clare
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Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

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