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Blog) with daily postings on language issues, especially on global English and language change. An "Open Dictionary" allowed users to provide their own dictionary entries for new words they had come across. The online edition was recognised as a good example of this emerging genre of reference
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word frequency information, with the most frequent 7500 English words shown in red and categorised in three frequency bands, based on the idea, derived from
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Kilgarriff, A. & Rundell, M. Lexical profiling software and its lexicographic applications – a case study. In Braasch and Povlsen (Eds.)
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a 50-page section providing guidance on writing academic English, based on a collaboration with the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics in
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function enabling users to find synonyms for any word, phrase or meaning. There was also a blog (the
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publishing. The website of the electronic dictionary and the blog were closed on 30 June 2023.
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eLexicography in the 21st Century: New Challenges, New Applications: Proceedings of eLex 2009
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Lannoy, V. Free online dictionaries: why and how?, in Granger, S. & Paquot, M. (Eds),
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Bejoint, H. The Lexicography of English Oxford University Press, 2010: 373–374
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Moon, R. On specifying metaphor: an idea and its implementation.
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also introduced a number of innovations. These include:
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Macmillan Dictionary
advanced learner's dictionary
Macmillan Education
defining vocabulary
collocations
Sketch Engine
Zipf's law
George Lakoff
conceptual metaphor
Louvain
Belgium
electronic dictionary
thesaurus
Granger, S.
"Online dictionaries: which is best?"
The Guardian
"That's my English"
the original
"Open Dictionary"
the original
"Macmillan Dictionary to close after 14 years of online excellence"
Archived
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Dictionaries of English
Old
Middle English
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
Dictionary of Old English

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