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Originally Posted by cw1865
I remember being in elementary school and asking the teacher what a certain word meant that I hadn't learned yet. She directed me to look it up in the dictionary. While I wanted to know what it meant, to be frank, I really just wasn't THAT interested to stop reading, get up and go over to the massive Webster's dictionary to look it up. The teacher insisted that I go and look it up. So, naturally I had to, but I learned my lesson, never asked a teacher what a word meant again.
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Looking things up never bothered me; in fact, I enjoyed it. What
did bother me to no end were those occasions when I'd little to no idea re. the correct spelling of the word that I was trying to find in a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc., and the teacher insisted that I just keep trying, particularly when it was the spelling itself that I was trying to determine!
