The Owner of the Dictionary

Description : The narrator interviews a man who has a habit of carrying a dictionary with him everywhere he goes. This habit has lasted for more than fourty years. This man explains that not only does he own all the prints of the Arabic dictionary that has been published in the Arab world in the last fourty years, but he also loves reading the all. Despite making fun of him because of this habit, his family, his friends and his collegues always go to ask for his help whenever they need to find the origin of any word.

SGD : Goal 4: Quality Education

Keywords : Children literature, Our Beautiful Language, the development of language, the source and the origin of words

Type : An educational story

Relations : It is one of eight stories in the collection Our Beautiful Language: Grammar Stories

Coverage : The story is about a man who carries the dictionary everywhere he goes even when people make fun of him

Language and Age : In Arabic for age 11-12

Publishing Rights : The writer and Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publisher and Place : Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publication Date : 2000

E-Format : 15 pages in Arabic