I need recommendations for the best Spanish review/dictionary. [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - 4 answers
Francofilter (part 2) (part 1): What's my best option for a science/technical French-English/English-French dictionary? [more inside]
posted on Apr 12, 2008 - 5 answers
What does one call something that contains the seeds of its own downfall? [more inside]
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Mac OS X 10.4 has a wonderful little feature associated with Dictionary.app : if press crtl + apple + D, it gives you the definition of the word under the cursor. Clearly this is only of limited use to a native english speaker, but I can imagine it being very helpful to non-native speakers, and I've very much love to have dictionaries in other languages (firsly French). However, it appears Apple never bothered to make any. Any idea what the file format is? Or how to make your own dictionary?
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posted on Oct 2, 2006 - 9 answers
The online version of the OED (subscription required) uses an ASCII version of IPA, and I can't figure it out. [more inside]
posted on Jan 8, 2006 - 12 answers ![]()
A friend of mine would like to buy an electronic Japanese-English dictionary. What model do you recommend? [more inside]
posted on Dec 3, 2005 - 8 answers
Electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary? [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2005 - 32 answers
I'm pretty verbose, but I don't think my vocabulary has grown much in years. And I'd like to build it up. [more inside]
posted on May 18, 2005 - 23 answers
Which dictionaries would you recommend as a gift for a writer friend? [more inside]
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English language question: what is the difference between intern/internship and trainee/traineeship? [+]
posted on Jan 28, 2005 - 19 answers
What's the difference between the words "proffer" and "offer"? This has been driving me mad for some reason for a few days now. Every dictionary I consult basically seems to say that they mean the same thing. But surely there must be a difference, right?
posted on Apr 19, 2004 - 12 answers