Dictionaries and the Modern Time

Once Drew Barrymore said that she is very sensitive to the English language. She had studied the dictionary obsessively when she was a kid and collected old dictionaries. She think that words are very powerful and they convey an intention. But what we can do if words change meaning all the time - and over time. In modern time things change lot more faster than before. Sometimes words changing meaning under our noses. One day you go sleep and word means one thing, but in another morning word has already gain other meaning. How we all going to communicate effectively if we allow words to shift in meaning like that? Well that is one of the problems in "modern" time. To find out the meaning of words, we use dictionaries. Few decades away we all had at least one dictionary at home. Big books, small books. It is good to have dictionaries to find out meaning of words, phrases. In modern time dictionaries are more accessible - one swipe away. But what is a dictionary? What kind of dictionaries there are? Those are few questions, what will be discussed in this project. That is the purpose of this project - to understand what is dictionaries and their place in our modern time. Writing my project I used following methods: 1) Descriptive; 2) Comparing; 3) Researching. I use books, internet resources, research papers, newspapers and journals. The project is divided into two big sections: first part is a general information about dictionaries - terminology, short history of dictionaries, types of dictionaries. In a second part I will discuss about advantages and disadvantages in our modern time for dictionaries.