links for 2008-11-26
November 26, 2008
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You can search or browse for a definition, ask the WDTM community for a definition, add one of your favorite idioms or slang/buzzwords, or help someone out – post an answer to a request for a definition for an idiom, catchphrase, buzzword or slang.
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With more than 600,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.
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Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused.
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Forvo is the place where you'll find words pronounced in their original languages.
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The Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the type of linguistic data that a corpus like this can provide, you can type in some simple queries here and get a display of concordance lines from the corpus. The query syntax allows you to specify word combinations, wildcards, part-of-speech tags, and so on.
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A very easy to use drop box that can be used to share all types of media.
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