In one of my other posts I stated that I had the big brown Cambridge dictionary that I bought from Thriftbooks.com, and I actually do not have that! I actually have The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English language. For some reason I thought I had the other one, sorry about that! I am not sure anyone actually reads this blog anyway but if anyone ever does I have that one. It is really a nice dictionary with so much information. It was published in 1984 so it is somewhat old. Old dictionaries have words that don’t get used that often anymore so it is a good idea to have one. This one has a list of the presidents, constellations of the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere, A history of our country shown like a newspaper article, Names of the states of the United States and their origin, popular names of people, dictionary of Business Law for Laymen, A Secretaries Guide, parts of speech, abbreviations of words, punctuation, etc.., proper nouns, synonyms and antonyms, foreign words and phrases, and Classical Mythology. All of these subjects come after the actual dictionary of words and then in the front it explains how to use a dictionary.
the word of the day according to the Websters encyclopedic dictionary:
continent; An arbitrary term applied to a connected tract of land of great extent; one of the great divisions of the land on the globe.
this is the definition according to the American College dictionary:
One of the main land masses of the globe. Usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica)
It just means that there are 7 continents and then countries live on the these continents.
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