Lessons From the Dictionary: An ‘A’ for effort!

Who knew all the work this humble letter was doing?

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When I wrote an article on how I’d resolved to read the entire dictionary in quarantine, one wit commented that he’d always thought the dictionary was the story of “an aardvark that ends up at the zoo.” It’s reasonable to guess that ‘aardvark’ or a similar double-a word from the Dutch would be the…