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Oxford vs Cambridge vs Collins dictionary. What's your favourite?
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Oxford vs Cambridge vs Collins dictionary.
What's your favourite?
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>>7403689
They all suck T B H FAMILIA
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nigga do you fucking sit around reading dictionaries
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Webster, pleb
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>>7403689
merriam-webster, collegiate
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I've spoken and written english only my whole life.
Is it ever worthwhile to go back and 'learn' english with some kind of advanced Rosetta stone thing or something? I want to be 100% knowledgable of english
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>>7403801
>>7403838
>2015
>Still thinking that murricans speak real english.
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>>7403689
The OED is the only viable dictionary.
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>>7403843
It appears I have been spelling American wrong this entire time.
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>>7403689
dictionary.com
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google
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Wiktionary
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>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Is this meant to be prescriptivist v descriptivist?
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Can you tell me exactly what the fuck you would use a dictionary for considering it is the current year that it now presently is?
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>>7407955
Dictionaries are supposed to shape the way we talk, anon
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>>7408250
That shit's gay, I do what I want.
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>>7408626
Wow, look! Here we have a rebel without a cause.
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>>7403843
>2015
>language purism
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>>7403843
define real english
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>>7403689
I know only Oxford
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>>7403689
I'm not particularly familiar with Cambridge or Collins, I refer to Oxford most often.
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