{"id":1084,"date":"2010-05-16T20:55:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T03:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2010-05-16T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T03:55:27","slug":"there-were-dictionaries-pre-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/there-were-dictionaries-pre-peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"There were dictionaries pre-Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is not a Peanuts book. Oh, it has the word “peanut” in it, but then it has many words. It’s a copy of The Rainbow Dictionary<\/em>, from 1947, years before “Peanuts” began. It’s a kid’s dictionary, with simple defiintions (often, really just examples of the word in use), with a couple of each page’s entries accompanied by a color illustration.<\/p>\n

Some of you may be familiar with the popular web feature “Garfield minus Garfield<\/a>“. Well, The Rainbow Dictionary<\/em> is The Charlie Brown Minus Charlie Brown Dictionary<\/em>. Originally published in 1973, The Charlie Brown Dictionary<\/em>, which was available at various times as one thick volume, 6 thin volumes, and eight even thinner volumes, was based on The Rainbow Dictionary<\/em>, with examples based around Peanuts characters and with Peanuts illustrations (existing material taken from the strip and from the animated specials).<\/p>\n

Now, if I really wanted to track the evolution of this dictionary, I need another edition. The Charlie Brown Dictionary<\/em> was actually\u00a0 on the second edition of The Rainbow Dictionary<\/em>, first released in 1959. And the evolution doesn’t end there, as The Charlie Brown Dictionary<\/em> served as the basis for a couple Chinese editions, which means that some folks overseas looking to learn English are learning specifically those words that were most common in literature for 5-8 year olds, over half a century ago (admittedly, with a few tweaks thirty-some years ago).<\/p>\n

And thus the world turns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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