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The 'invention' of the dictionary has had two main influences:
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The Dictionary has standardized spellings. Before dictionaries, some people kept lists of words. But in different parts of the country the spellings were often quite different, being influenced by local accents or local spellings. For most people, they knew how to 'say' what they wanted to communicate, but they rarely had to 'write' anything! So when it came to writing, many just made up the spelling as they saw fit.
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Dictionaries have made people more aware of language (and the meanings of language) and provided greater opportunity for people to increase their personal vocabularies.
The result is that, with good use of dictionaries, we are often better equipped to express ourselves because we have a wider range of words at our command, and we can then select those that best match the idea we want to express. And even if we occasionally use an obscure or abstruse word, the other person can always look it up ... in a dictionary!
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