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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English online

am 16.05.2007 von http://transblawg.eu

Online and free to use: the best learners' dictionary of English, and despite its restricted vocabulary, I still use it myself …

English vocabulary count/Fast 1 Million englische Wörter

Transblawg / The Independent writes that the English language will soon have its 1-millionth word. * Spanish linguists say there are 225,000 words in contemporary use. * The largest edition of the Duden German-German dictionary contains about 200,000 words * The

In case in British and American English

Transblawg / There is a difference in meaning of ‘in case…+ verb’ in common U.S. and British usage. A non-native speaker could make a confusing mistake here. I quote the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1995 ed.), the best learners&#

Oxford English Dictionary for Students

Handakte WebLAWg / Oxford University Press has published a new dictionary aimed at improving poor grammar, spelling and writing skills among undergraduates - Compact Oxford English Dictionary for Students. Quelle: Xrefer vom 5.8.2006

Grandiloquent Dictionary

Transblawg / Carlos Ferrero Martín, in Las palabras son pistolas cargadas, deals in some depth (in Spanish) with the Grandiloquent Dictionary: This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English

Mr Honeys Dictionary/Winfried Honigs Wörterbuch

Transblawg / Sometimes, in bookshops in Erlangen and Nuremberg, I’ve seen CD-ROMs with a German-English economics dictionary by one Winfried Honig, who calls himself Mr Honey. He can be found by Google and investigated further. One of his dictionaries is on

New FR>EN law dictionary

Transblawg / I gather that Harrap and Dalloz have just published a small (well, cheap) French>English law dictionary....

“Podcast” und “Wiki” im Oxford English Dictionary

nach-recht-en / Die Wörter “Podcast” und “Wiki” wurde nun ins Oxford English Dictionary aufgenommen: podcast • noun a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar programme, made available on the Internet for downloading to a person

Japanese patent translator

Transblawg / There is an article about the patent translator Hidejiro Tanigawa in Daily Yomiuri Online. It’s a description of his career and his opinions about patent translation. It’s a good summary for those who are ignorant of technical translati

Websters online dictionary - Rosetta edition

Transblawg / What on earth is this ‘dictionary’? Here it is on translator. There are seven pictures of translators, none of which are me. Very bizarre. If you click on ‘references’, you are taken to amazon.com. We know ‘Webster’

Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein

Transblawg / I wrote a whole screen on how you should choose a book as carefully as you choose your toothpaste, but I suspect people want concrete advice. That follows in a later entry. Here's the general waffle: Books to learn legal English /Bücher zu

Dietl DE>EN new edition published / Dietl DE>EN neu erschienen

Transblawg / If one is to believe the Beck Verlag website, the new German-English volume of Dietl’s law dictionary has appeared in book form and the CD-ROM is promised for the end of July 2005....

German Civil Code translation into English/BGB ins Englische übersetzt

Transblawg / LAWgical reports that the German Civil Code is being translated into English, to appear online. All 5 books are to be translated into British English by autumn 2005 and appear online as part of the German Federal Ministry of Justice’s...

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