Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 15, 2018

Gracie Bermudez: el diccionario human (did she learn that word from the same book Carmen is looking through?)

Wrong word. Christoper Columbus checking his map’s position with a GPS is anachronous.

So is using a print dictionary in a digital world. I have the Oxford dictionaryon my phone.

I enjoy learning new words trouble is trying to remember them for future use.

I have to admit, having my dictionary and thesaurus apps. on my computer and laptop saves me an awful lot of time but I still keep the hard copies of Oxford English, Webster’s, and Roget’s on my office desk.

I think she means “archaic.” Anachronous is completely different form obsolete. :/

I wasn’t sure that Gracie was right, so I looked it up in my Merriam-Webster’s 11th Edition Collegiate Dictionary (the one installed on my computer from the CD that came with the print edition). Part of the definition includes this: “. . . a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially: one from a former age that is incongruous in the present.” In Gracie’s eyes, the print dictionary is something from a former age that is incongruous in the present, so I think she’s using the word correctly.

I posted this comment above, as a reply to another comment, but then decided to post it again as a comment on its own, because I am surprised at the number of people who think they know exactly what the word means without even bothering to look it up.

A good Example of anachronism is in 6/17/18 B.C. cartoon. Disney World in caveman days.