Strange but true

I'm sat here listening to Classic FM radio.  The announcer introduced a piece and said it was played by the philharmonic orchestra of such and such.
Which made me wonder what exactly philharmonic means, so I looked it up in the dictionary.
Philharmonic means devoted to music.
So then I thought to look up the dictionary definition of orchestra.
Orchestra means a large group of instrumental performers.
So two words sum up nine succinctly.

I sometimes do look up words in the dictionary.  It's amazing what you can find out.
Take for example a particularly annoying tendency of some people to pronounce the word liquorice as lickerish.  This particularly annoys me as lickerish is NOT an alternative pronunciation, it has a completely different meaning.  Go on look it up in a good dictionary, and you'll find it has nothing whatever to do with a black coloured sweet. And...every time you hear someone say it that way in the future you'll find it difficult to not smile.

Enjoy your dictionary, it's a treasure house just waiting to be discovered.