Words

My father asked me to tell him the difference between a digraph and a diphthong this morning. The first is a group of two letters expressing one sound, the second is the union of two vowels pronounced in one syllable. It's a fine difference but there is one.
It is the weakness with dictionaries of course. We use words to describe words, the meaning of words. Even if we think we get the meaning across and the other person appears to understand us they do so within their own experience and not ours.
It makes me wonder how Margaret really saw things. Her experience of the world was so limited.