Friday, May 09, 2008
The Visual Dictionary Online
The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.
- 20,000 terms with contextual definitions, developed by terminology experts;
- 6,000 full-color images of a wide variety of objects from all aspects of life;
15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images
Astronomy
Earth
Plants & gardening
Animal kingdom
Human being
Food & kitchen
House
Clothing & articles
Arts & architecture
Communications
Transport & machinery
Energy
Science
Society
Sports & games
Founded in 1974 by Jacques Fortin, Groupe Québec Amérique is one of the largest privately owned publishing houses in Canada. Its two main divisions, QA INTERNATIONAL (Reference and Multimedia) and Les Éditions Québec Amérique (Fiction and Non-fiction), are located in Montreal.
For more info
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/about-us_company.php
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Overused and Mis-applied Words during 2007
Word fads come and go and 2007 was the same as all previous years.
Some nominations for overused and mis-applied words words during 2007 include:
"organic"
"perfect storm"
"post-9/11"
"surge"
"Webinar"
"x is the new y"
"70 is the new 50"
"chocolate is the new sex"
"add pop"
"give back"
"sweet"
"it is what it is"
"emotional"
"decimate"
"throw under the bus"
"wordsmithing"
It is difficult when learning English to know what words are "hot" and what are passe. Sometimes it is very difficult to write when trying to project the image of being hip or cool. Groovy Eh.
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