You can’t browse Siri [or Alexa or any computer dictionary].
I learned a lot of words just cruising around looking for something else...
Kids do not seem to have that ability anymore...
And how many spelling principles and words do you learn from just looking up words in the dictionary? Too many to comprehend, I’m guessing. When my son was in 5th and 6th grade, he read the encyclopedia we had just been given by my uncle.
“You can’t browse Siri [or Alexa or any computer dictionary.”
I cruise Powerthesaurus.com, but other online thesauruses offer the same benefit: lists of words with similar meanings. It provides a lot of “Hmmm. Never thought of that” moments for me.