A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (Or, Exactly Fifty): A Better Place In a Shifty World

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What I see: A young woman engrossed in the dictionary, but not just any dictionary -- that one has word origins and etymology, and with some knowledge of history, one can get a decent sense of how English developed, and both the uses and misuses of the language.

What I feel: She reminds me of myself, also with the Encyclopedia Britannica.

In a world full of lies and liars – decades of it, and particularly every leap year – Anne found comfort in reading the dictionary.
Not that English did not have its own lies, covering long colonial tracks in the origins of words.
But not as many, and at a discoverable pace.