Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls!

Have dictionaries gone the way of the dial telephone? Are they gathering dust on a book shelf, never opened to check a spelling or meaning or use? I suspect there'd be less internet ranting if people just grabbed their Funk and Wagnalls or Webster's or even log on to a Web dictionary, because as the Princess Bride fanatics are always saying "I do not think it means what you think it means".