The thoroughness of specialty dictionaries can at times be surprising. For example, I recently found myself reading a dictionary on butchery, and reading it can make you marvel at how little we really know about the world. This book, for example, offers 48 synonyms to the word ‘meat’: “whole-meat product – heat-treated meat product made solely of meat that has been supplemented with water and additives; whole-meat products come in whole (e.g. pig’s heads) or the meat can be chopped, roughly minced, massaged or tumbled, the casing can be sprayed and heat-treated, and on the outside it resembles a piece of a meat product”. Just look at that information; even Slavka the Butcher can only read and marvel!