TOP 100 DICTIONARY SITES
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| Mom jeans: Just say "no" (The Daily Reflector) Warning. The following may be upsetting. Reader discretion is advised. Picture a pair of jeans, powder blue. The rise stretches higher and higher until the belly button is but a distant memory. The ankles taper to the shape of sugar cones. They are too short, and the socks show. us.rd.yahoo.com |
'Twittering', 'hmm', and 'heh' make it to Collins English Dictionary (New Kerala) London, Aug 31 : 'Twittering', 'hmm', and 'heh' are among the 267 words that have been added to this year's Collins English Dictionary, all thanks to teenagers who use such words on social networking websites. us.rd.yahoo.com |
PONS advanced Spanish dictionary for mobiles (All About Symbian) PONS Advanced Spanish dictionary contains 117,000 entries, 230,000+ definitions, useful phrases, about 2 000 000 word origins and synonyms, etc. For almost 30 years PONS has been developing hallmark green dictionaries and language courses for lifelong learning - for students, professional users, travelers and hobby linguists. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Tom Sutcliffe: The joy of a short story (Independent) In The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined the novel as “a short story padded”. It’s a little self-serving as a definition this. Bierce himself was a short story writer and the entry perhaps betrays a certain testiness at the respective statures of the two forms. us.rd.yahoo.com |
What to call 2000-09? Who knows? (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, cannot escape the question: What should we call this past decade? We have the '80s, the '90s, and ... the "twenty hundreds". us.rd.yahoo.com |