Subject versus general dictionaries – is it an either/or
So you’ve bought your child age-appropriate dictionaries at various stages of his school career, supported his additional-language acquisition with bilingual dictionaries (as opposed to monolinguals), and even invested in a thesaurus. Your child writes beautiful...How often should I buy my child a dictionary?
How often does my child need a new dictionary? Though much depends on your child and his/her language level, including whether your child is a home-language or additional-language speaker, one can usually follow the phase guidelines in our school system: Foundation,...How to use a dictionary to support literature study
Dictionaries can be invaluable in studying literature. Literature authors craft their words, so many novels, plays or poems have unusual words or difficult constructions you won’t encounter in everyday conversations, while some words are unique to specific works of...Oxford South African Pocket Dictionary, Fourth Edition
The eagerly awaited fourth edition of the Oxford South African Pocket Dictionary will hit the bookshop shelves in the second half of 2015. This southern African edition of the world’s best-selling, most practical pocket English dictionary for high-school and office...“Why isn’t the word I want in my school dictionary?”
We all know the feeling. You come across a word you’re not sure of. You take your dictionary, find the right place – but the word’s not there! If this sounds familiar, pause before you write off your dictionary as being no good except as a doorstop. Bear...
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