Headline : Slovník is its own reward

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Editorial

Once upon a time, during a dreary winter in Žilina, I started reading the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It happened to be the only book in my tiny collection, besides Finnegan's Wake, that I hadn't re-read until the cover fell off.

Dictionaries, as everyone else except me already knew, are full of good comedy. From Boetia (a city in ancient Greece renowned for the stupidity of its inhabitants) to borborygmus (the rumbling of gas in the intestines, pl. borborygmi), the OED lays it down with a comically straight face ("bullshit: [mass noun] stupid or untrue talk or writing.")

Much of that humour, unfortunately, never makes it to the Slovak-English dictionary (slovník) put out by the Slovak Academic Press in 1997. But don't be put off - just in learning the vocab you need to explore the dictionary, you will encounter a host of expressions that also apply to basic life situations.

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