not a real joke, but funniest answer gets 10. Be creative?

Question

why is the word dictionary in the dictionary?

Have fun

nice try Smilin

Answer 1

if you were looking up dictionary in the dictionary then you would probably already know what dictionary meant so why would you be looking it up....common sense

~that was all my friends idea!!

Answer 2

So we can have conversations like this...because if it wasn't in the dictionary, someone would ask why the word dictionary isn't in the dictionary because that would be just ironic and perhaps at some point in time it wasn't and Webster grew tired of people asking so they added it...now they're being hit with why it's in there...it's a lose lose situation for Webster...this was the best i could do for a thursday morning

Answer 3

So when a child asks their parent how to spell "dictionary" the parent can say "look it up in the dictionary." The child will then go look up the word, not realizing they could just look at the cover for the spelling.

A better question is: what is another word for "thesaurus"?

Answer 4

In case my ex girlfriend and people like her wish to look up what a dictionary actually is...

Answer 5

Otherwise the dictionary wud not know it is a dictionary

Answer 6

its telling you what a dictionary is, like for spelling finding out the meaning

Answer 7

cuz they have to put every single definition in the dictionary including dictionary

Answer 8

dictionary is in the dictitionary cuz i guess its a word

Answer 9

what's a dictionary?

Answer 10

to help us understand what s a dictionary!!!!