GEN: Colored specks on sides of dictionaries

[Diane Averett <averett4@GLORYROAD.NET>]

Netters,

This will probably be the strangest request you'll hear all week!
Several of my third graders were using one of our Webster dictionaries
today and started exclaiming that there was blood dripped on the pages.
 Naturally I went over to investigate and I saw what was troubling them!

If you look at a closed dictionary (or some other book for that matter),
sometimes the top, bottom and sides of the pages are printed with tiny
red or black specks that actually do look like blood has been spilled.

My students really want to know why this is done.  Do any of you have
any idea?   A correct answer really will make me appear to be a genius!!

Thanks.


Diane Averett/Librarian
Kerr-Vance Academy
Henderson, NC
averett4@lgloryroad.net

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