TOP 100 DICTIONARY SITES
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| Twittergraphy There is nothing new about new technology imposing restrictions on articulation. These phrases are from “The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code,” published in 1891. nytimes.com |
Sarah Palin and Barack Obama enter Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (Daily Telegraph) The words that helped to define Sarah Palin's vice presidential election campaign and a turn of phrase used by author Sir Terry Pratchett to describe his Alzheimer's have become the latest entries in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Times Developer To Build Dictionary of the Future (The New York Observer) Six weeks ago, John McGrath had a dream job. Since March 2008, the 39-year-old software engineer had been working at The New York Times on the interactive news technologies team, what he called a "special forces unit," under editor Aron Pilhofer. He was coding Web projects like document viewing programs and features for election season on NYTimes.com. "I think I had a rock steady job there," he ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Goodbye, Dictionary.com...Hello, Google Dictionary (ZDNet) And in the more-cool-resources-from-Google department, Google has formalized its dictionary offering. Although google.com/dictionary used to provide aggregated definitions for words from various dictionary resources online, it's now a full-blown dictionary tool that leverages Google's translation technology and provides concise definitions and synonyms. Although Google's attempt to compete with ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
"Google" Wins Top Word of Nameless Decade (CBS News) "9/11," "Green" and "Text" Among Most Influential Words of the Past Decade (aka the "Aughts," aka the "Naughties") us.rd.yahoo.com |