So, this article caught my eye probably due to the fact that my mother used to work as a copy editor for an English language newspaper for a number of years and I grew up reading the Dear Abby column http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/ , and the Sunday comics  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_comics (Dennis the Menace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace_%28U.S._comics%29 , Blondie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_%28comic_strip%29 , Prince Valiant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant , Hagar the Terrible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4gar_the_Horrible , Popeye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye , and Peanuts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts come to mind,) but, most of all, I loved looking up definitions of words and their origins in her brown hardbound Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me

a Webster’s and O.E.D.

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me

two Magic Rubs
and a Webster’s and O.E.D.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/12/a-copy-editors-twelve-days-of-christmas.html#ixzz2GCA9NSWi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29

http://content.pncmc.com/live/pnc/microsite/CPI/index.html#intro   :-)  Christmas Price Index interactive game for those who like hands-on stuff and are very patient.  You have to unlock four to move on to the next four until you complete all twelve hunts.  Nice for kids.