We think of words as the basic units of language. When a baby begins to
speak,Given that English spelling is so erratic, a common reason for looking
up a word in an English dictionary is to check how to spell it. But another
very common reason is to check what it means. In fact, that is what a
dictionary entry basically consists of: an association of a word, alphabetically
listed, with a definition of what it means, and perhaps also some