tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post397396797600308759..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: 8 nature words that defy the children's dictionary by Griselda HeppelKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-52777887286244643442018-02-03T12:31:47.660+00:002018-02-03T12:31:47.660+00:00pffft! straight to the adult dictionaries Griselda...pffft! straight to the adult dictionaries Griselda - I remember vividly the fury I felt as a child when I'd gone to the effort of looking up words in the Children's dictionary only to find they weren't in there ... Maybe nothing new?madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-34601451496309781372018-02-02T09:03:05.078+00:002018-02-02T09:03:05.078+00:00I must get hold of that book, it sounds wonderful ...I must get hold of that book, it sounds wonderful and haunting. And I agree, why are there so many children's dictionaries? I only remember using Collins Pocket one for simple words and moving on to full-sized adult dictionaries for words that weren't in there. Not that children shouldn't have their own dictionary; just make it a full, decent one that doesn't narrow their world. Awful that one even needs to ask for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-80694867767960021822018-02-01T10:47:37.738+00:002018-02-01T10:47:37.738+00:00It's very sad that we have this situation. I&#...It's very sad that we have this situation. I've been reading 'The Lost Words' by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. It's a beautiful book - poems matched by paintings, of adders, dandelions, magpies, acorns... It's inspired by exactly this: the words that are being lost. And with them goes centuries of tradition, knowledge, poetry...Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-27217945680127604132018-02-01T08:17:48.384+00:002018-02-01T08:17:48.384+00:00bah! humbug! - except that probably they aren'...bah! humbug! - except that probably they aren't in there either. Absolutely with you on this ... except I'd let the little dears straight at the enormous and weighty adult versions with the rice paper thin pages - not quite as good as a walk in the woods, but it would give them a little exercise manhandling it off the shelf ...madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com