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Oberstar sends journalists scrambling for dictionaries
This reporter and others who will remain nameless were forced to open their trusty (and dusty) dictionaries to learn the definition of Malthusian. Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary describes Malthusian as: ...
Ten things you should know about dictionaries
This video of a lecture by Erin McKean, one of the editors at the Oxford American Dictionary, is unexpectedly interesting. Or at least it is if you're an English/language/lexicographical/speech obsessive, just a little bit. ...
Oberstar sends journalists scrambling for dictionaries
DFL Congressman Jim Oberstar made an appearance at the State Capitol today to praise the DFL-controlled Legislature for overriding Gov. Pawlenty's veto of the trnasportation bill. Oberstar, the Chair of the House Transportation ...
American Heritage(R) Dictionaries Weekly Spanish Word History: RODEO
Rodeo The English word rodeo comes from Spanish rodeo, which means both "corral" and by extension "rodeo." Rodeo is derived from the verb rodear, "to surround" . . .
Mobipocket dictionaries
Bit of a silly questions but can any one tell me if the English dictionaries on Mobipocket.com are British or US english or both?
Two Advanced German Dictionaries
How do the newest editions of the Collins and Oxford-Duden German dictionaries compare? If you're looking for an advanced, "serious" German-English dictionary, these are about the only two choices. Does...
Jar dictionaries English-German, English-French, English-Spanish
High performance of the dictionary # Efficient data storage # You can browse the dictionary freely (ie not only find one single term) # User-friendly interface # If a term is not found, the dictionary finds the term most similar to this ...
Law Dictionaries and the Millionth Book
Tarlton is noteworthy not merely for its powerhouse Roy Mersky, but for hosting a special collection of Law Dictionaries - I had no idea that law dictionaries go back to 1488. Here is a newcomer from 1670:. « Hide it.
Yawn
Yeah, I know the web is full of on-line dictionaries, but I'm still a big fan of pulling the dictionary down to look for a word, mainly because I keep finding other words that suggest story ideas to me that way. ...
Evolution of Default Dictionaries in Python
I write a lot of code where I use a dictionary of sets (or lists or counters, etc)