Los Angeles — When actor Tony Randall first heard the word “campestral,” he lunged for his favorite dictionary. The Felix Unger of words — def. finnicky, persnickety, discriminating — Mr. Randall ...

The Noontime Rotary Club in Santa Maria is celebrating the start of the school year by gifting hundreds of dictionaries to third grade students in the Santa Maria Bonita School District. Members of ...

As Elks Lodge 1254 members began unboxing hundreds of dictionaries to prepare for distribution on Friday, Secondary Transition Education Program student Justin Mannion couldn’t help but express his ...

Third-grade student Justin Santos displays his winning prize and new dictionary after getting the correct answer in the dictionary treasure hunt activity. — Photo courtesy of Rotary Club of Lahaina ...

In a project that has been happening for over 13 years, Dickinson Rotary donates a record number of dictionaries to area ...

Members of the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset pose with the winners of the dictionary treasure Hunt activity. Photo courtesy Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset The Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset presented ...

MILWAUKEE -- Before kids learn to read, they need to know what words mean. Dictionaries play an important role in that process, but some kids don't have the luxury of owning one. One man is trying to ...

Oct. 12—athens — When was the first English dictionary written and who wrote it? How old is the oldest known dictionary? These were the sort of questions third grade students were asked Friday when ...

How would you support a student who did not speak English and had no one else at the school who spoke his or her native language? I was that student some 20 years ago. Coming from the war-torn former ...