Today is a wordy one- it’s Dictionary Day!
One might think in the era of Google dictionaries are irrelevant. But you would be wrong.
They are the best and most reliable source of the history of a language.
They document the changes in a language. Did you know on average there are 1000 new words added to dictionaries every year?
They are invaluable for anyone learning a second (or third or fourth or…) language.
Maybe we don’t all have a hard copy of a dictionary on our bookshelves in 2025, but they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.