The best English dictionary

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jun 3 15:00:48 UTC 2005


At 12:59 PM +0200 6/3/05, Paul Frank wrote:
>  >From my blog:
>
>http://languagejottings.blogspot.com/2005/06/best-english-dictionary.html
>
>I realize that DARE lists ghost turd, but I still think I've found the best
>English dictionary out there. Not that I was the first to find it...
>
>Paul
>______________________________________
>Paul Frank
>English translation
>from Chinese: humanities and the social sciences
>from German, French, and Spanish: sinology
>www.languagejottings.blogspot.com
>e-mail: paulfrank at post.harvard.edu

Interesting claim, Paul.  But wouldn't the ideal "best dictionary"
resource also direct you somewhere useful (if only to the plural)
when you look up "ghost turd" (in the singular) rather than throw up
its hands and shrug its shoulders as http://www.onelook.com/ does?

Larry



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