Words With Moms
6 May
An 1888 advertisement for Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
One of the BEST things I learned from my mother…
best |best| superlative of good
adjective
of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality
• most enjoyable: some of the best times of my life.
• most appropriate, advantageous, or well advised
“If you don’t know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary,” she insisted.
Once an English Major, always an English Major. As the Mental Floss T-shirt joke goes, “I’m an English Major. You do the math.”
My mother kept a thick, worn hardcover copy of her college edition Webster’s Dictionary on a little shelf in the corner of the kitchen. [...]
