Look up any word in the dictionary, and there will be an example of that word in a sentence. Author Jez Burrows's book Dictionary Stories expands those sentences into works of fiction.

The Dictionary Project Mary French, director of the Dictionary Project, discussed her organization’s work to promote literacy by giving dictionaries to students. She explains how Annie Plumber ...

A student in Britain has created a Dictionary of Lost Words. It's filled with words that failed to make it into the Oxford English Dictionary. For example: Freegan, a person who eats free food ...

This project has as its goal to provide every third-grader in the United States this important reference tool. Representative students in […] Dictionary project | News, Sports, Jobs - Altoona Mirror ...

The project: Assembling an Assyrian dictionary based on words recorded on clay or stone tablets unearthed from ruins in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, written in a language that hadn't been uttered ...

The Johnson City Rotary Club and the Elks Lodge handed out 170 free dictionaries to third graders as part of a nationwide campaign called “The Dictionary Project.” The project aims to promote ...

After Michael Oman-Reagan, an anthropologist and Ph.D. candidate, tweeted the Oxford University Press that their dictionary included sexist language in some of their example sentences, the ...

When Jez Burrows reads example sentences in dictionaries, he feels inspired. He has started a blog where he posts short stories made up entirely of sentences from the New Oxford American Dictionary.

The North Scranton Rotary Club has sponsored the project since 2003.