Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-09-28
TAE DICTIONARY.
WAYS IN which Its Pages May BE Q
source of Much Pleasure.

n Dir DOCK Is lle dictionary lno
young people who during the pnstfew
weeks have been hunting out the words
for the prize contest have had a good
chance 10 lind out that ii is also IN in
tercsling one. How many of our
young people are there who have stop
ped 10 give n thought to the simplicity
yet vaslugsS of scope of our language
ms exhibited in the dictionaryS pages.
Open your unabridged and let u fora
moment look at this. Between the
pages of this one book, many lcaved
though il be, is found the complete
realm of thought, Every idea that
has possessed the mind of man is here
abstractly represented by the printed
word or sign. and from just these
words, strung over and over again
into simple and stirring sentences, the
master minds of the world have form
cd the great mass of writings. There
are upward of l20, 900 words in the
dictionary, and yet oil these words are
but va combinations o. tweniy-siK
letters.
Have you ever tried this game? MOI
Well, suppose then YOU get out your
dictionary and commence. The game
is well adapted for two persons, al
though a larger number may as read
lily play it. One of you open promis.
cuously at n page and commence read.
ing off the words. II is the object of
your opponent TO spell correctly as
many words as possible, and also To
define or give his idea us 10 the mean
ing of the words. Keep on TO the end
of the page, aud when finished let an
other page be selected and the test
applied to you in the same manner.
Whoever gets the greatest number
right Is. of course, the victor. The
only way TO realize the sport of this
game is TO try il. You will be sur
prised at the number of words you
don't know. You will be astonished
at the uumberyou do know. You will
meet with, probably on every page,
tJrds that You never heard Of. This
Is a fascinating game, and ono that
will increase your stock of knowledge.
Try i'll
Did you ever go searching for the
longest word in the languagel Set
your friends 10 work ut this and LET
them bring 10 you the result. Some
n has said III answer TO this question
that the longest word in the language
is Smiles because there is "A mile be-
tween the first aud last letters. This
Is witty, but just not to the purpose.
The longest word the s o'clock man
has been able 10 find is ''disproportion.
ablenesS." This contains twenty-one
letters.
Another interesting thing Of this
kind is To find the largest words whose
letters will admit of a complete trans
position into another word. For in.
stance, the letters comprising the
word ''peripatetic' are identical with
those of "precipitatc,' whilctlle letters
of enumeration, are readily trans.
posed into "mountainecr." Can YOU
lind any similar eleven letter words!
Despite the many patented poeticap
pliances of the present day, and in
spite Of all that is heard oG the men
who manufacture rhymes for poets.
there are a number of words in our
language to get u good rhyme for
which a writer is often hard pushed.
There are some words to which there
seem 10 be no rhyming words. AS an
illustration sec if our readers can find
a word to rhyme with the compare
lively easy one silver" II has long
beelkupposed that there is no rhymf
to month \ good authority
says there is a rhyme to it-not
"onety onth," or any lisping yer.
sions Of such words as "oncc, v
Ounce" etc, but Il legitimate word in
every day Use. Let US see who can
guess il. The word orange is also
mentioned as going begging for
rhymes, while the dabbler IN arlatory
verse has ever felt the necessity foa
more words rhyming with "loye."
The genial author Of the popular
"PInalOre, who has been aptly mem
toned as the master of verbal oil
tortion," las felt the restriction Of
these limitations, and furnishes some
facts from his own experience. RE
yenge" and "avengen have no rhyme
but "Pcnge' and "Stonehenge;"
Golf has 40 rhyme at all. "Starye"
has no rhyme except carve. ""Scarf'
has no Rhyme. as laugh" and half"
and calf certainly arc not admiss.
IDLE. Scalp has no rhyme but ''alp."
False has no rhyme; ''valse" is near
IL, but the French accent disQualilies
il; walt is near it, but the Il"
spoils IT, Babe has no rhyme but
''astrClabr, certain proper names ex-
copied "Gambogc" has no rhyme
but "roguc." Tube would be rhyme
les save for cube and 'iuinbe."
"Buguu has no rhyme at all. Gulf
rlyu,r5 with no English word. We
have % fall back ON Cardinal Pan
dulpA" and "UlG,' tLcmnslrpl. All.
mutil' has only doth "CulW'
and ''cusp' have no English rhymc1
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