Me, a few days ago.
2007-10-23 18:52:16 · 29 answers · asked by D 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
30 mins back..download wordweb, its very easy and quick in PC
2007-10-23 18:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Happily Happy 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I last used a dictionary this morning. It was useless. The only words that my dictionary has are the ones I know already and the ones I want to look up are rarely there.
They are very good if you want to look up simple words like "a", "the", "be", etc. and so I think it is a con that dictionaries claim to have so many thousand words but not the ones you want :-(
2007-10-23 20:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by max m 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A few days ago I consulted my Little Oxford Dictionary (published 1969) A useful little book with which I was able to convince a younger colleague that licence (noun) and license (verb) do both exist and have different meanings (also practice and practise) regardless of what spell check might think.
2007-10-23 20:14:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A couple of weeks ago. I used a Tibetan to English dictionary for a Buddhadharma text I am editing at the moment called The Heart Sutra.
2007-10-23 19:26:36 · answer #4 · answered by Zheia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use several different languages every day in my work, so I keep several hardback language dictionaries by my desk as well as the internet addresses of a number of Online dictionaries in my browser "favourites".
I still also use an English dicitionary; this is not only to check spelling - sadly, the spell-check on my office computer defaults to US spelling, which is not acceptable in a UK government office - but also to double check I am using words correctly in terms of meaning.
2007-10-23 22:18:51 · answer #5 · answered by GrahamH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yesterday, checked a Spanish dictionary.
2007-10-23 21:07:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yesterday.
Have you noticed that every time you look up a word in the dictionary, you invariably find a more interesting one first, and for a while you forget what the original word you were looking for,was?
2007-10-24 01:07:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
About half an hour ago. I'm a translator. I sometimes use on-line dictionaries, but I still like my weighty volumes. I have many dictionaries, including The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 volumes), French/English - English French - Larousse (2 volumes), Pons German/English - English/German (1 volume, weighs a ton but keeps me fit), German/Spanish and vice versa, German/Italian - ditto. Dutch/German - ditto, Turkish/English and vice versa and Turkish/Kurdish and vice versa.
2007-10-23 21:46:26 · answer #8 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost every day!
Have discovered the 'Urban dictionary' now, and am finding that very interesting too.
2007-10-23 18:56:45 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not as often as I should. I use a chinese/english dictionary the most.
2007-10-23 19:20:29 · answer #10 · answered by LoveBeingAMum 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just last night actually. I couldn't remember how to spell the word lackadaisical and guess what?.......................
It turns out that not only had I been spelling it wrong all these years but worse still I had been saying it incorrectly as well! I always thought that it was lacksadaisical. I was gob-smacked when I found out how wrong I had been! LOL!
2007-10-24 05:40:06 · answer #11 · answered by Tatsbabe 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋