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Monday, February 22, 2010

It is really one of my favorite dictionaries, the Longman Advanced American Dictionary. Among its great features are the Thesaurus inserts, which explain the slightly different meanings of so-called synonyms. Under “H,” for instance, the user can learn more about the variety of words used to describe hair color: fair or blonde means yellow or very light of color, strawberry blonde indicates a light red-blonde, and a towhead is someone with very blonde hair. Yet, the entry for blonde tells the user that it is another spelling of blond, used when talking about a woman. The avid dictionary user thus concludes that there are no male strawberry blondes, and only women are real towheads. Don’t we dumb blondes love that!

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