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Article: Cel{bull}e{bull}brate ; The case for Dictionary ...
The Boston Globe;  October 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Dictionary Day - also known as Noah Webster's Birthday ... of course). In some places, Dictionary Day is celebrated with bonfires of the ... dictionary publishers trying to make Dictionary Day into a kind of Sweetest Day holiday ...

Article: Gather 'Round the Lexicon - Sunday is Dictionary ...
PR Newswire;  October 14, 2005 ;     663 words ... ... Well, no. October 16 is National Dictionary Day, but the celebrations aren't that ... American lexicographer Noah Webster, Dictionary Day is celebrated mostly in schools, where ... not in school, how you can celebrate Dictionary Day? Erin McKean, the editor of the New ...

Article: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP DISTRIBUTE BOOKS DURING ...
Targeted News Service;  January 16, 2007 ;     613 words ... ... recruiting volunteers to help distribute dictionaries to third grade students during the 5th annual Dictionary Day event Thursday, January 18. Dictionary Day is one of three annual literacy events organized by Oakland HEROES. Every OUSD third grader ...

Article: Dover-Foxcroft pupils to mark dictionary day
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  September 29, 2009 ;     251 words ...DOVER-FOXCROFT - The Valley Grange will entertain SeDoMoCha third- graders at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at the Grange Hall, for Dover- Foxcroft Dictionary Day. Students will receive a short history lesson, tour the Grange Hall and leave with their own personal dictionaries.

Article: California Dictionary Project Kicks Off Its 7th Year With a ...
PR Newswire;  October 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... birthday to begin its 7th consecutive year of donating and distributing dictionaries to third-grade students. On National Dictionary Day, volunteers from the community and local business will visit nearly 200 third-grade classrooms in 5 school districts ...

Article: Seize the dictionary -- day after day after day
Oakland Tribune;  November 5, 2003 ;     619 words ...ON THE FRONT of my old typewriter, just above the keyboard, I had pasted a single, hand-written word. The word was seize.I had pasted it there simply because I'd gotten damn sick and tired of looking it up in the dictionary. For years, I kept getting seizemixed up with siege-- not in meaning, but

Article: NY Yankees + World Series = Learning Opportunity.
PR Newswire;  October 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... adapted from three new books -- "The Word Whiz's Guide to New York State Elementary ... This exercise was adapted from "The Word Whiz's Guide to New York State Middle School ... This exercise was adapted from "The Word Whiz's Guide to New York State Elementary ...