https://aneeshsathe.com/tags/etymology/Recent content in Etymology on Aneesh SatheHugoen-usThu, 17 Jul 2025 06:35:42 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/a-good-dictionary/Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:35:42 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/a-good-dictionary/<p>Yesterday <a href="https://aneeshsathe.com/divine-documentation/">I wrote</a> about good documentation opening doors to options you didn’t realize you had. In the book <em>On Writing Well</em> Zinsser mentions how one of his key tools is the dictionary. That got me curious about the limitations about the dictionaries available to us. This is not just about the dictionary on the bookshelf but the ones that we have in-context access to. The ones on our computer and phones.</p>