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November 20, 2005Merriam-Webster Offering Open Dictionary
Merriam-Webster last week announced the "Open Dictionary," which they describe as "a real-time chronicle of new words and senses based entirely on contributions from its users." It's available at http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/ . The front page has the most recent entries, as...
Continue reading "Merriam-Webster Offering Open Dictionary" » June 07, 2005Online Dictionary with Entries in Limerick
This makes me far happier than it probably should. The OEDILF, or "Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form", is currently working on entries aa- through ba-. Its a dictionary where the definitions are given in the form of limericks. You...
Continue reading "Online Dictionary with Entries in Limerick" » A Search Engine for Acronyms
Esus has announced the release of Acronyma, a search engine with an index of over 450,000 acronyms and abbreviations. It's available at http://www.acronyma.com/ . You may search in several different languages, and you may search by word or by acronym....
March 14, 2005OED Adds, Revises Over 2000 Entries
The Oxford English Dictionary added or revised over 2000 entries in its dictionary last week. New entries include scrunchie, shroom, spaz, fuzzy dice, and creepy-peepy. You can get the full list of new and revised entries at http://dictionary.oed.com/help/updates/ ....
January 04, 2005It's Like Google Suggest, Only As A Dictionary
There's been a lot of discussion about Google Suggest, which provides potential words and phrases depending on what you type into the query box. There's a similar tool available using a couple of dictionaries instead of the Web. It's called...
Continue reading "It's Like Google Suggest, Only As A Dictionary" » OED Adds Bunch of New Words
The Oxford English Dictionary has added several new words to their dictionary. You can get a list at http://www.oed.com/help/updates/latest-additions.html. New words include beat-down, flippy, several variants on home school, kill file, and supersize....
January 02, 2005Lake Superior State University and the Banned Words
Lake Superior State University has published their banned words list for 2005, which you can check out at http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php . Words on the list include "Webinar" (I heard that), "Sales Event", and "You're Fired!" Get the previous lists at http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archived_lists.php...
Continue reading "Lake Superior State University and the Banned Words" » May 14, 2004The Dictionary of Playground Slang
You think I'd learn with the Electric Company Archive, but nooooo, instead I've got to go straight to the Online Dictionary of Playground Slang at http://www.odps.org/ . This site actually contains four different dictionaries related to playground slang. There's Ghastly...
January 01, 2004The Banished Words of 2004! And 2003, and 2002, and 2001, and...
Every year the folks at Lake Superior State University get together and banish a whole bunch of words from the English language -- the words that were the most overused, overbearing, and just plain irritating. This year was the 28th...
Continue reading "The Banished Words of 2004! And 2003, and 2002, and 2001, and..." » December 22, 2003Merriam-Webster's Words of The Year
Okay, it's not quite a data collection but I thought it was cute. And it's the holiday week so nobody's reading this anyway, right? You all are out there wrapping presents and sipping eggnog and tracking UPS shipments. So perhaps...
November 13, 2003OneLook Announces Reverse Dictionary Service
OneLook has announced a new reverse-dictionary service at http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml . Their reverse dictionary allows you to enter a word or group of words describing a concept and get results consisting of related words. I searched for the word "ennui" and...
Continue reading "OneLook Announces Reverse Dictionary Service" » February 05, 2003A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
When does a ton weigh just over an ounce? How much alcohol is in a methuselah? And what is the diameter of a gnat's eye, anyway? These and other questions are answered by the Dictionary of Units of Measurement,...
January 22, 2003The Search Engine Dictionary
Can't calculate your EPV? Don't know your KFCP from a hole in the ground? Check out the Search Engine Dictionary at http://www.searchenginedictionary.com . It's an alphabetical listing of over 300 terms and definitions related to search engines, from About...
August 05, 2002OneLook Adds Features
OneLook dictionaries ( http://www.onelook.com/ ) which allows visitors to search over four million words in over 700 dictionaries, has announced some improvements. Their load speed is apparently faster; I noticed that the front page popped up very quickly and search...
May 15, 2002Stands4 In the Place Where You Live...
.. now face north. Stands4 ( http://www.stands4.com/ ) is a searchable subject index of abbreviations. There are several ways to get through this site. You can browse by topic (categories include governmental, computer, and medical), browse by first letter of...
April 16, 2002Directory of Glossaries
Xlation has a directory of almost 1700 glossaries at http://www.xlation.com/glossaries/ . This simple page provides pulldown menus for choosing glossaries by either topic or language. Listings include the language of the glossary, glossary title, date last checked, and occasionally (but...
January 31, 2002Learning the Difficult Words
"So sit bolt upright in that straight-backed chair, button that top button, and get set..." Whoops, sorry, that's difficult MUSIC. The resource at http://w ww.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/index.html is for difficult WORDS. It's searchable, but also browsable, if you want to get a...
Merriam-Webster Adds Audio Pronunciations to Its Site
Merriam-Webster (http://www.Merriam-Webster.com) has added an audio feature to its online dictionary, offering audio pronunciations of about 105,000 words. Now, after you do a search, you'll see that some defined words have a small red icon beside them. (Sometimes more than...
Continue reading "Merriam-Webster Adds Audio Pronunciations to Its Site" » March 07, 2001Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
Fact City has started offering Thomson Financial information through its Fact City database. This information encompasses publicly-held companies. An easy place to access it is iWon at http://www.iwon.com/home/search/factcity_tutorial/0,14925,,00.html Fact City seems to have been working on the natural language interface...
April 22, 2000Free Medical Dictionary Launched by MedicineNet.com
MedicineNet.com has launched medterms.com, a free e-encyclopedic dictionary designed for use by anyone concerned with health issues. This site contains over 9,000 entries covering standard medical terms as well as pertinent scientific terms, abbreviations, syndromes, eponyms, and medical history related...
Continue reading "Free Medical Dictionary Launched by MedicineNet.com" » March 15, 2000The Oxford English Dictionary is Finally Online!
Lots of words! ("60 million words describing nearly three-quarters of a million terms illustrated by more than 2.4 million quotations") Lots of additions! (thong, body-piercing, cyberspace, ecotage, etc.) Lots of pop culture! (Those quoted include Quentin Tarantino and Ice Cube.)...
Continue reading "The Oxford English Dictionary is Finally Online!" » January 29, 2000More words in the dictionary
The Merriam-Webster dictionary announced yesterday that they have put the year 2000 update of their dictionary online at http://www.m-w.com . Unfortunately I don't have any cool information like what words were added....
November 26, 1999Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Did you know the Cambridge dictionaries are online? From the link below you can search the following references: Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms....
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