The dictionary

@sherry24 (252)
August 19, 2007 8:09pm CST
If a word in the dictionary was misspelled, how would we know? And why is abbreviation such a long word?
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rachelnextdoor
@rachelnextdoor (187)
• United States
20 Aug 07
If we believed that a word in a dictionary were misspelled, we could check another dictionary to see if that one spelled it differently. Abbreviation is long word because it has Latin roots.
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smartali89
@smartali89 (179)
• Pakistan
21 Aug 07
You are right...
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dgarcia
@dgarcia (50)
• United States
22 Aug 07
1. Check another brand of dictionary 2. Because the government wants to make it hard for foreigners to learn English
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Se7enth
@Se7enth (170)
• United States
20 Aug 07
So we can abbr. the word itself ;) 7
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