The phrase "the dictionary" is a signal that the person using it believes that dictionaries are prescriptive rather than descriptive, and (depending on which dictionary it is) possibly not that accurate.
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When speaking of the OED in 1950, you could reasonably speak of "the dictionary." But when applied to whatever ad-supported site a web search turns up in 2020, that's decidedly not the case.
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"The dictionary" you found in a web search could just be the opinion of a random 26 year old whose qualification for the job is to have been an English major in college.
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The Scrabble dictionary remains a definitive source IMO
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The Oxford English Dictionary still exists and the majority of those web services are based on it.
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Paul - has been bothering me for a long time. You promote competitive start ups (which sure lets people live their dreams) - you are very good at it as you love it. Do you not find it contradictory, that yet you lament ad driven knowledge suggestions?
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I’ve been told that the oed is run by Marxists, because the cited reference for the origin of a word was thirty years older than the one the person I was talking to wanted to believe.
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