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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

Recently a friend asked me for a recommendation.

He wanted to know what kind of dictionary to buy for his son who's a college freshman and he

asked me what's the best dictionary for my son to keep on his desk and you know the

funny thing is that I hesitated for a second and he said, well what dictionary do you keep on your desk?

And I had to think for a second and then admit, I don't have any dictionary on my desk.

I have sort of a vague muscle memory of opening a heavy dictionary on my desk and turning the pages or pulling a big one down off the shelf.

But, Grant, I really don't do that anymore. I don't have a dictionary on my desk. I guarantee you his son

doesn't have a dictionary on his desk either and won't even if his father buys it. He's like

you and me and most people these days who have a reason to call on a dictionary every day, we go online.

Right, but I had to explain that if I want to look up a word, I go to one look dot com and look at the dictionaries there,

the American Heritage or maybe Merriam-Webster, or I go to the

Oxford English Dictionary online, but of course that costs a lot of money for a lot of people.

So I was sort of at a loss for what to tell him. What would you have said?

Well, you're headed for the territory that requires some kind of teasing out and explaining kind of like setting up your criteria.

He's talking about a college student here. The father's willing to spend some money, right?

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