“I’m not 100% convinced that memoriz-ing the dictionary is the best way of improv-ing your vocabulary,”says the characterplayed by Hugh Grant in Woody Allen’sfilm Small Time Crooks.Yet why not?Ifyou could memorize the dictionary-or eventhe 5,000 most common words in that dic-tionary-wouldn’t that give you a hugeadvantage?Researchers estimate that a core “I’m not 100% convinced that memoriz-ing the dictionary is the best way of improv-ing your vocabulary,” says the characterplayed by Hugh Grant in Woody Allen’sfilm Small Time Crooks.Yet why not?Ifyou could memorize the dictionary -or eventhe 5,000 most common words in that dic-tionary-wouldn’t that give you a hugeadvantage?Researchers estimate that a core