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Colour Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English by Robert Pontisso, Heather Fitzgerald, Tom Howell, Katherine Barber

leah_markum's review

2.0

I have a Merriam Webster dictionary that's ancient and worn, and since I was moving back to Canada I wanted a new Canadian dictionary. However, I still prefer my old dictionary when I don't want to go online because, as my mom has told me all my life, Oxford makes inferior dictionaries. Her teachers growing up said that. I have now read enough classics while sitting on the porch away from the computer to know that this dictionary doesn't serve when I need it most. Yet my old dictionary does each time. So I figure this book is "OK" as per GoodReads two star rating because I can see it coming in handy for someone younger or someone being occasionally forgetful of a common word. Incidentally, both books are of similar font, layout, and number of pages, so I have no idea how this one has so much fewer words I need to know compared to the other. Awesome cover design though. Sometimes I love being Canadian just for being represented by the maple leaf motif.