Merriam-Websters Open Dictionary
am 03.12.2005 von http://transblawg.eu
Hours of harmless fun with Merriam-Webster’s online Open Dictionary:
Welcome to Merriam-Webster’s Open Dictionary where you can 1) submit and share entries that aren’t already in our Online Dictionary, and 2) browse entries submitted by other members of the Merriam-Webster Online community.
Most recent additions at the time of posting this are Sith, Jedi, snipid, deambigulate and fencil. Deambigulate is curiously similar to disambiguate. Snipid (‘the smell of the autumn air - My it sure is snipid outside’) and fencil seem based on one unattributed quote each. This, I believe, is really true (readers, don’t try this at home, as they say):
stiffy (noun) : A 3.5” floppy computer disk. Term used primarily & widely in South Africa, where the term ‘floppy’ refers mainly to the older, larger 5.25” disks (as they where floppy, while the smaller, current ones are stiff).
Please insert the stiffy into the A: drive of the PC.
At least that illustration helps. Some illustrative sentences could refer to almost …
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’…
Websters Online Dictionary revisited
Transblawg / Recently I wrote, rather hastily, about the huge and bizarre Webster’s Online Dictionary. Now Andrew Joscelyne at Blogos has looked into this and really done his homework. The dictionary creator, Philip Parker, was born dyslexic and liked to re…
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&#…
Podcast ist “Wort des Jahres 2005″
Handakte WebLAWg / Steve Rubel reports ‘podcast’ is the New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2005! Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted “geeks”. Now you can hear everyt…
You say tomayto and I say tomato
Transblawg / At the legal translation seminar in Munich I learnt that people at the European Patent Office don’t mind whether they or I write trade mark or trademark. (I had learnt that trade mark is British and trademark is American - perhaps I’m too…
scilicet / ss.
Transblawg / In an earlier entry I referred to various meanings of the abbreviation ss. That is one of the problems, that ss. can mean a variety of things, and my summary may be a bit confusing. Ian Harknett points out that there is an 1856 Bouvier law dictionar…
Visual Dictionary online / Online-Bildwörterbuch
Transblawg / Merriam-Webster VISUAL DICTIONARY Online (via languagehat)…
Google erklärt googlen
MarkenBlog / Usage: ‘Google’ as noun referring to, well, us. Example: “I just love Google, they’re soooo cute and cuddly and adorable and awesome!” Our lawyers say: Good. Very, very good. There’s no question here that you̵…
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