Dictionary Quote by Maxine Kumin Download Open image “A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.” — Maxine Kumin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dictionary Find How Language Lot Out People Spell Use Words
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Why are people still using a dictionary? I just type the words into Google and see if it corrects me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I hate when I ask my mom how to spell something and she sais look it up in the dictionary. I would but I… — Tanya Bianco Copy Share Image
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language… — Nas Copy Share Image
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture -… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words for swords,… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart” — Nikita Tak Copy Share Image
Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his innermost soul.… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
