Does any one like reading the dictionary ?

ok, i will tell you only if you promise not to think that i am a freak! lol...i do enjoy reading the dictionary because i get a chance to learn new words and it is great when we play scrabble!! :-)

No, I don't read the dictionary. I should my spelling is horrible. When I work online, I use the dictionary that I downloaded. I suppose if one read the dictionary on a regular basis one's spelling would improve.

No, I don't like reading dictionary. I used to see dictionary when I needed to know the meaning of the word and how I should apply it in the context sentence. In my opinion, the best way of learning a new word is to read a book, an article, etc. Otherwise, it is easy to forget it. If I am not really sure about the definition of a word, I will then take a look a dictionary. I also opened a dictionary when I would like to get an exact meaning of it.

What I do is to use one of the online dictionaries and learn words that way. The advantage of this is that you can always enlarge the screen. With the dictionary , I have to reach for my glasses, and thumb through the pages. On the online dictionaries, they usually give an example. If you go to Merriam-Webster, http://www.m-w.com/ or Dictionary.com at http://dictionary.reference.com/ you can learn a new word a day. That is what I do.

HEY ! Dictionaries - never meant for reading ... dictionaries are reference volumes wherein you seek the meaning of a word you are not quite sure of . ....not to be read as a book.

I use my dictionary when I prepare my lessons, especially when I have to be sure of the use of the word. But in the usualy time, I don't read it. I think that it is a good way to enlarge your vocabulary. But I prefer to enlarge my vocabulary via using them.

I like leafing through the dictionary. I also buy and read books such as "Words: A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish" by Paul Dickson, "Dictionary of Literary Terms" by Harry Shaw; books like that I spend hours with. Earlier this year, I was looking up all the words I was unsure of from a book I was reading. And I ran across somthing very interesting. For years, my sister has tried to trace down the source of my grandfather's last name: Ramilia. So I was using the "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary," and I think I found a clue to its origin finally. Turns out there is a village in central Belgium, where Marlborough was defeated by the French in 1706, named Ramillies (RA ME YE). So yeah, I learn new words from the dictionary. It doesn't bug me that I don't know the proper usage--I try not to fluff my writing up with words I don't completely understand--it is the knowledge that such words exist that fascinates me.

I am not interested in the dictionary completely, but I can not do it, when I don't understand the word, I must read it...lol..