My family didn't get this at all when I enthusiastically shared how I now had access to the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the definitive guide to the largest language in the known universe, and it hides behind a paywall. But I found I can access it for free by using my library card -- our local library subscribes to it.
So now when I want to look up:
hi-hat
or
scrip
as I needed to two days ago or discover whether the word 'luck' is derived from the word 'Lucifer,' I can. (It isn't).
It's like getting the keys to the linguistic universe. What a resource. What a discovery. So why do my family look at me so strangely?
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