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A small pleasure: yesterday morning a courier arrived bearing a presentation copy of the new Chambers Dictionary, 10th edition, to which I contributed some expertise in IT-related words. Coincidentally, its Introduction is by the Greatest Living Cumbrian, who occasionally resides a few miles up the road from here. The Dictionary is a beautiful production, and whether you're curious to know the meaning of jobernowl, fizgig and wallydrag or simply wish to treat the logophile in your life, you can buy a copy by clicking here. It is not, as the saying goes, a book to be cast aside lightly. Indeed if you're elderly or infirm I'd caution against trying to pick it up in the first place. But it will provide hours of pleasurable browsing for the curious mind. One can only regret the absence of an index.