Today, I added 60 words to my dictionary. One less word than yesterday, but still 10 more than my daily goal.
I started the challenge yesterday, with a total of 60,600 entries in my dictionary. I’ll see what the total is at the end of the challenge in 28 days.
Happy Dictionary Building,
Elsie Villega
It’s the first day of my dictionary challenge, and all is going well. Today, I added 61 words to my dictionary. Therefore, I exceeded my minimum goal of 50 words.
I added three suffix endings (including T*I for the “-ty” ending. I added the asterisk to avoid confusion with the phrase “at this”), a bunch of words starting with the letter “a” (since I started at the beginning of my dictionary- lol), some medical terms, and some words that I got from practicing a few lits.
SIDEBAR: I wonder how long it will take me to get through all of the “a” words in my dictionary.
Happy Dictionary Building,
Elsie Villega
As a student who is looking to start working in 2013, I am well aware of the importance of dictionary building. Therefore, I decided to do a 30-day dictionary challenge. My challenge is to add AT LEAST 50 new words to my dictionary EVERY DAY! (Yes, even on the days when I’m in Philly for the convention. Lol.)
Feel free to join me on this challenge. You might need to alter the goal of 50 words per day to suit your own standards.
I plan to get words from text books, biographies, news stories, and dictionaries. I will post daily updates on my tally of words for the day. Feel free to share your tally too, or you can be an invisible challenge participant…It doesn’t matter, as long as we triumphantly progress in the task of building our dictionaries.
[SIDEBAR: Don’t forget to backup your dictionaries on a flash drive, or alternative storage source, as you build them.]
For the love of steno!
Happy Dictionary Building,
Elsie Villega
I’m going to start a 30-day dictionary challenge on Monday. As a student, who will soon be going out into the work-world, I’m challenging myself to build my dictionary. I am currently at, approximately, 60,450 entries. It is my goal to reach AT LEAST 67,000 entries before the year is over.
I’ll be posting details to the challenge on Monday.
Have a Great Weekend,
Elsie Villega
