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| Paragon launches speaking Oxford dictionaries (MacNN) Paragon Software has launched several dictionaries for Mac OS X including the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Eleventh Edition; the Concise Oxford Thesaurus; the Oxford Russian Dictionary; and the Oxford German Dictionary, Third Edition. Sound modules are provided for over 20,000 words, allowing users to hear pronunciations from English, Spanish, German, French and Italian native speakers.... us.rd.yahoo.com |
The gift of knowledge (Cedar Grove/Verona Observers) St. Catherine’s School, Cedar Grove, third grade student Jordan Ahn peruses his new dictionary, given to him by the Cedar Grove Rotary Club Wednesday, Sept. 23. The club distributes new dictionaries to every third grade student in Cedar Grove as part of its Gift of Knowledge program. Students also received a coupon for a free copy of Charlotte’s Web that they may pick up at the Cedar Grove ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Unfriend is US dictionary's 2009 word of the year (Daily Record) NEW YORK (AP) — What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. us.rd.yahoo.com |
80's, 90's, Then The Whatchamacallit Decade (The Huffington Post) What's Your Reaction? Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, cannot escape the question: What should we call this decade? We have the '80s, the '90s, and . . . the "twenty hundreds"? us.rd.yahoo.com |
MENIFEE: Dictionaries removed from Menifee classroom (North County Times) Copies of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition,have been removed from fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms at eachof the Menifee school district's eight elementary schools inresponse to a parent's concerns about some of the words anddefinitions. us.rd.yahoo.com |