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American Heritage Book of English Usage - contemporary guide to English usage

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - The fourth edition of the unabridged dictionary.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - The fourth edition of the unabridged dictionary.

Directory of foreign and English language dictionaries - Links to dictionaries from The Linguist List

English Language Reference - Oxford University Press books on English usage, idioms, proverbs, etc. Access restriced to IU.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World - 13th ed., 1996, by Summer Institute of Linguistics. It includes a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries.

Eurodicautom - Originally the multilingual terminological database of the European Commission's Translation Service, Eurodicautom contains about 5.5 million entries (terms and abbreviations) in 12 langauges. Eurodicautom covers a broad spectrum of human knowledge, but is particularly rich in technical and specialised terminology (agriculture, telecommunications, transport, legislation, finance) related to EU policy.

foreignword.com - a site that centralises the access to on-line dictionaries and glossaries, gives an overview of the latest translation software products, allows exchange of knowledge among translators and offers web-space to interested translators.

Latin and Greek - Several tools for Latin and Greek from the Perseus Digital Library.

OneLook - Definitons from many English language and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. Plus, translations to and from other languages.

Roget's Thesurus - Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition - More than 100,000 entries, made available by the ARTFL Project

WordNet: A Lexical Database for English - By the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University, an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus - Integrated English Dictionary and Thesaurus, made available by Robert Parks and the ARTFL Project; normal, floating and approximate searches. Now requires registration to use fully.

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