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10.4: View some interesting definitions in the Dictionary
This hint seems to imply that this behavior is a dictionary easteregg, but is in fact just a regular property of how dictionaries work. Look at it this way: 'jobs', 'gates' and 'bonds' are all words that will bring up individuals before they bring up 'real' definitions, where as 'dole' 'gore' and 'bush' will bring up 'real' definitions first. We could easily assume that this is a result of a wily Giants loving Apple employee with no interest in politics. I would point out that the real difference between these two sets has nothing to do with computers, baseball, or politics, but instead that the words in the first set are all plural. The dictionary pulls up Stevie's entry first because it has a separate entry for 'Jobs' but not one for the plural of 'job'.
10.4: View some interesting definitions in the Dictionary
If you only look up words relating to computers in the Oxford English Dictionary, you'll think that you have a book about computers. According to my copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition, Revised with Addenda: Computer, one who computes, specifically one employed to make calculations in an observatory, etc.I suppose that might have changed slightly in later editions. |
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