Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this book were put here for her guidance alone.
Anne YlvisakerStichwörter: humor names middle-grade dictionaries
I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.
Janet FrameStichwörter: words books cousins dictionary cousin dictionaries lexicon
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: language dictionaries
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
Ambrose BierceStichwörter: dictionaries
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