11-20-2010, 10:41 PM
(11-19-2010, 08:14 PM)ShadowHM Wrote: ... quite a few dictionaries and related books ...
My dictionary section contains 125 books or there-abouts. I have a couple dozen 'regular' dictionaries with copyright dates back to the early 1900s. The rest are specialty ones ranging from A Dictionary of Agriculture to one about Zoology with many other topics in between such as Carnival Worker's Jargon, Electronics, Geography, Horseman's Terms, Music, and so forth.
A few of my favorites are The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, A Contrarians's Dictionary by Murray L. Bob, and NTC's Dictionary of Changes in Meanings by Adrian Room. The latter being quite interesting especially when I read very old books.
When I had my dedicated library room, I debated quite a bit about whether to keep all the dictionaries in their own section or to intermingle the specialty ones within the corresponding sections of my collection. I finally decided on keeping all the dictionaries together.
How do you arrange yours? Any particular favorites?
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