Roger Angell on the joys of looking things up in print:
An elementary-school teacher I know recalls a moment with a female sixth-grade student of hers who’d somehow botched the word “sophisticated” in a paper they were going over together and, when pressed, confessed that she didn’t really know what the word meant. “Why not look it up?” the teacher said, handing over a dictionary. The young woman leafed about, then paused, with her finger stabbing something on the page. “Hey!” she cried, her face alight. “Oh, wow, they’ve got ‘Snot.’”
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