I love today's word from the OED

[conuly]

https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/64193431

And since I'm posting one dictionary-related link I may as well post another:

https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2021/11/08/i-am-begging-you-to-learn-how-dictionaries-work/

Comments

[pauamma]

In hindsight, that may very well be. I was taught how to extract square roots using pen and paper, but if I ever learned it, it didn't stiuck even for the maybe 2 years before I started using precomputed numerical tables and a slide rule.