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Vocabulary Test Time! Can You Speak (New) English?
Every day editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary spend hours reading books, magazines, newspapers, and online publications to find out how people are using the English language. Eventually, if a word is used enough, it gets added to the dictionary! This year, Merriam-Webster added 100 new words, including frenemy, ginormous, smackdown, sudoku, and speed dating.
Geek Tip: Get Quick Dictionary Definitions Via Email
Have you ever been stuck in a cabin in the woods playing Scrabble with your friends when an intense debate begins about the spelling of the game-taking word? Next time you're without a strong internet connection (or just don't feel like doing the googling yourself) you can use your smartphone or computer to email wsmith@wordsmith.org and you'll be treated to the dictionary definition and synonyms of any word.
All you have to do is send a blank email to the wordsmith.org address.
Flashback: Bill and Ted's Excellent Dictionary
Duuudes, I'm convinced that we collectively went brain dead during the '90s. That's the only way I can explain the most triumphant rise of Bill and Ted. They weren't excellent role models, and yet, they managed to make a bodacious mockery of the English language and get others to join in.
Website of the Day: Ninja Words
Why is it whenever you need a quick definition you are stuck reading the Latin meaning, what the word means broken into a hundred different parts and then maybe if you scroll, scan and decipher, the definition you want finally appears?
Now with Ninja words, you can type in a word and get a quick, short, easy-to-read definition where you don't have to learn Italian to understand it — was that so hard?!
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Where's A Dictionary When You Need One?
Why must they use such big words on game shows? Are they intentionally trying to publicly humiliate us, or something? It's as though they think our eagerness to play along, despite the look of deep and profound confusion on our faces, makes for amusing television- which it doesn't.
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It's Dictionary Day: What's Your Favorite Word For Sass?
Since it's Dictionary Day, a day to promote using the dictionary and expanding your vocabulary, I figured I'd ask you your favorite word for someone with sass.
Sassy is not my favorite word, but one of the words below that describes a woman who isn't afraid to grab what she wants is a favorite! What's your favorite word for someone with sass or moxie, or chutzpah or .
The New Electronic Dictionary and MP3 Player By Sharp
With the latest electronic dictionary from Sharp, you'll never have to say "how do you spell..." again!
This fire engine red RD-9100MP dictionary boasts sixty-seven volumes of assorted dictionaries and their associated language learning tools, an e-Book reader, a MP3 player, an FM radio, a voice recorder and a five inch LCD screen for easy viewing.
Fab Read: The Little Dictionary of Fashion
If you've ever hankered for style advice from a couturier, look no further. Christian Dior himself reveals that he abhors women who wear high heels with slacks, along with other style bites, in The Little Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman ($14), which was originally published in 1954.
The handbag-sized book, which is fully illustrated and filled with fun facts like Dior finding the color purple to be "a hue full of danger," was recently republished to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dior's famous "New Look" collection.
Visual Dictionary Looks At Words Through Photography
We've all heard that a picture is worth about a thousands worlds, but it was Ansel Adams who once said, "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." It's a charming thought that is fortuitous captured in Visual Dictionary's collection of images of words in the real world.
Fab Read: Style Dictionary
Here is an oldie but goodie. I got this Style Dictionary illustrated by Ruben Toledo, $23, for Christmas years ago. If you have been enjoying our Style Glossary this is up your fashion education alley.
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