How often would you say you look things up in the dictionary?

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How often do you come across words you’re unfamiliar with and resort to looking it up?

Rosexøxø · Accepted Answer

I really thought this was just for the online one. Comments surprised me.

I had a pocket one, my dad FLUNG at me and encouraged me to keep. I read some. It’s not the most thrilling book to read… “sorry dad!” 😰😂

I use the online one whenever I see something new (so that varies)

and whenever I rarely engage a profound conversation- and I JUST DONT KNOW, but sometimes I just feel like I’ll think up a word I’ve NEVER used, and in my gut it feels right, and I’ll then google it- turns out it was the perfect word and meant exactly what I had imagined.

That was some weird luck for sure. I think some words I felt were just appropriate, and it was a variation of a word I had known, but I wouldn’t be sure if it was even a word- again, I’d find it to be a word meaning what I had assumed. 😃👍

That would be truly rare, and that gift has died down. 🧐

Sometimes Autocorrect will give me insanely wild words, which I’ll have to check, and it can be quite fun doing so.

Just the other day, I learned about a new Greek Individual in the mythology, and it was fascinating. Some of the words I can’t even believe, are words because they will start with various letters hardly used like- [ i ] and some of them have all the odd accompaniment of letters like [ i ] with [ x ] or

[ W ] [ S ] [ X ] [ P ]

and it baffles me all the time.

Do I look up words a lot? Neh, not really.

I’ve lost the “mindfulness,” to check all the time: my spelling and those guessing words, so I’ll have a few people correct me. 🤣

Good times.

Cynicaldreamer · Accepted Answer

Not as often as I did before the internet came out. I still do, but mostly for medical jargon used at my job.

Fun fact- I still have a dictionary and encyclopedias at home from grade school. Old school when we had to write research papers and we didn't have the internet to "google" stuff.

LiamJHayden · Accepted Answer

Probably about once per week, usually one here when a word gets used in a way that sounds off to me. Most of the time I am right, but sometimes the question / response is correct because the word has a secondary or tertiary meaning of which I was formerly unaware. I like learning new stuff.

matchrestore · Accepted Answer

I'll google stuff, but most of the time I'm looking up industry specific technical jargon, and the dictionary wouldn't be much help.

melanieeeB · Answer

Does translation dictionary count?
If so, then daily!!! Hahaha
I mix up words so often! I will start a german conversation and then 1-5 words I only know in English, so I have to look up what's the german word for it... I start answering here and I have to do the same the other way around and so on and so on...
Sometimes I just remember a word and wanna know the full meaning behind it before using

chadbdullah · Answer

Well, I mostly do it since I started to learn English. It's been 9 months since I started. I am learning English as my third language, but I can say it's pretty easy compared to German. I don't need a dictionary to check for the words as often as I did when I was learning German.

msmissydc · Answer

Nearly daily I would say. Not as often in a sense of not knowing a word, but to quote a definition from the dictionary. That being said I do write for my work.

Petr87 · Answer

Not very often. Hardly ever, in fact, unless it's some new term that only recently popped up in popular culture, or an old word that has been given a new meaning, like "cancel", "woke", and "gender".

purplepoppy · Answer

I'll use online dictionaries quite a lot. I like to know the etymology of words.

Apple1996 · Answer

I use Google but maybe once a week/every 2 weeks I look up a word

menina · Answer

Not as often. I used to look up more when I was younger. Not that I know everything now, but I haven't been looking it up that much.

whirled_up_girl · Answer

I used to do that all the time now I just Google it and look for the online dictionary.

SnowedIn · Answer

That comic cracked me up. At least once a week; sometimes more.

NostalgiaSenpi · Answer

I use Google in the same manner, once or thrice a week.

Sparkie460 · Answer

I haven't used a dictionary in years. That's what the internet is for

Mayo503 · Answer

It’s called Google lol hope that helps if you can believe it

AsaKyo · Answer

I do that a lot to make sure I'm using the word I just said correctly lmaoo

Guardian45 · Answer

I regularly look up words online in various dictionaries. My favorites are Merriam-Webster, Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary.

petitedollbabee · Answer

I just use google 🤷🏻‍♀️

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Just about daily

beebella · Answer

I just use Google, tbh. 😂

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

I don’t think we even have one

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