- Behaviour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictionary Quotes
On words, and where they're kept.
These dictionary quotes play on the idea of a personal dictionary of behavior, joking that success only comes before work in the dictionary and nowhere else in real life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Impossibility is a dictionary word.
- Fabulous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
- Becoming
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- Nov 07, 2020