Dictionary Day???

Somewhere I read that today, April 14th, is DICTIONARY DAY. However, 

I looked it up on the Internet, and consistently found that it's celebrated 

on Oct. 16, the birthday of "the Father of the American Dictionary," 

Noah Webster (1758). Webster began writing his dictionary, 

which included both traditional English vocabulary as well 

as newer American words, when he was 43 years old, 

and it took him 27 years to finish.

1962 edition of Webster's New School & Office Dictionary

Above is a picture of the dictionary my husband and his three sisters used in school, back in the 1960s & 1970s. Their names are in- scribed inside the front cover, its pages are held together by a brittle strip of duct tape, and by the delapidated look of the thing, they must have been either diligent scholars or kicked it around a lot!

I used to keep vocabulary notebooks when I was a kid in school. I've decided to add a vocabulary page to this book blog: a place where I can list the interesting words I come across in my reading.  Click on page button in the right sidebar.