Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary
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 anything: ‘Have you scrubbed the Dunny yet Tim?’ (Sure enough, the big MW has two dunny entries, but not for this meaning).
We used to collect effle - English that no-one would ever use except in a book teaching foreign languages or English as a foreign language. Now I wonder if one could collect iffle - illustrative material that doesn’t. (Posted by Mike on pt at Yahoo groups)
Dictionary ON Line: Bilingual visual dictionary online/Zweisprachiges Bildwörterbuch onlne
Transblawg | 8. Januar 2009 — I once mentioned the Merriam-Webster online visual dictionary. There's now a German-English version online, the same material appa…
Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage
Transblawg | 8. März 2009 — I eventually got Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage, as often recommended by Mark Liberman on Language Log. Wel…
Translegal Legal Dictionary: Translegal Learner's Dictionary of Law/Studentenwörterbuch zum englischen Recht
Transblawg | 25. Oktober 2009 — Translegal has put a learner's dictionary of law online. The price is $19.95 per year (that's about 13.30 euros at the moment). Th…
Conclusory
Transblawg | 17. April 2007 — It was exciting to read that Mark Liberman of Language Log did not know the word conclusory. I have to admit that it's used in …
Juridical person
Transblawg | 20. August 2007 — A comment to the previous entry on legal entity mentions the term juridical person, which gets many ghits, although not all o…
Books on legal English - particular/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - Details
Transblawg | 10. April 2007 — Dictionaries If you want a monolingual dictionary of U.S. law, the only Blacks Law Dictionary worth getting is the big one.…
Official Dictionary of Unofficial English as free download
Transblawg | 25. Mai 2009 — Grant Barrett's Official Dictionary of Unofficial English is available as a free download (PDF). Since my book The Official Dict…
Swiss Legal English Dictionary: Swiss German to English law dictionary online/DE-EN Wörterbuch des Schweizer Rechts online
Transblawg | 10. November 2009 — Sascha Stocker Legal English Dictionary - you might have seen this mentioned in a comment to an earlier entry. Sascha Stocker is a…
Anlage Anhang: Translating 'Anhang' and 'Anlage'
Transblawg | 26. April 2008 — Anhang is a great German word. A bit like Anlage in technical texts, it can be used in all sorts of contexts, where the English mi…
Wikiwords Beta
Transblawg | 22. April 2006 — ProZ.com has now opened Wikiwords for general use. It’s based on translation suggestions collected at ProZ (KudoZ). One war…
Merriam-Webster Online
Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
Transblawg: Effle from an Armenian textbook

