Huh??

Didja ever notice how dictionaries define words? Is it just me or do they sometimes defy logic?? On my sidebar, you'll notice there's a "Word of the Day" gizzy. Today's word is "recrimination", and the definition starts out with "the act of recriminating..."

Now, I don't know about you, but it seems to me that if I'm looking up the word recrimination, it would be kind of obvious that I'm doing so because (a) I don't know what it means, or (b) I don't know how to spell it (which I won't go into here cuz that's another on my list of illogical doings.) Isn't that why we use dictionaries? So wouldn't it logically follow that if I don't know what recrimination means, how the hell am I going to learn anything more with a definition that starts out with "the act of recriminating?"

Further seems to me that the dudes who write dictionaries oughta have a more extensive vocabulary!

The act of recriminating... gimme a break!