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online dictionaries and encyclopedias


online English dictionaries

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Cambridge Dictionary
WWWebster Dictionary
Yahoo English dictionary list
IT dictionary O'Reilly ``PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms''.
net glossary Glossary of online abbreviations, such as ROFL, AFAIK.
Word Spy ``Older words that are now being used in new ways.'' Includes words like heisenbug, which is `heisenbogue' in French.
Jargon Scout Glossary of Internet terminology
dictionary.com web-site with evil cookies and horrible sub-window advertising techniques. Avoid it!

dictionaries for non-English languages

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dict.leo.org Link Everything Online. Translates both directions between English and German. Provided by Informatik der Technischen Universität München.
jargon français Definitions of French jargon words, including Internet abbreviations (ROFL etc. etc.) and smileys. For instance, it explains the neologism courriel. (See also the Plato smileys.)
Hachette online French dictionary.
French dictionaries Google category.

online translation software

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SYSTRAN ``Translation Technologies, Language Translator, Online dictionary, Translate English.''
BabelFish At AltaVista.

online encyclopedias

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everything2
Encyclopedia Britannica
Instrument Encyclopedia University of Michigan. ``This resource features musical instruments from around the world.''
Encyclopedia.com Electric Library online encyclopedia.
Nupedia A free on-line encyclopedia. ``We are building the world's largest international, peer-reviewed encyclopedia.''
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy This has now moved to the BBC.

online museums

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E-Museum At Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Virtual Museum of Canada

linguistics

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language gene Article in ``Nature'' about the discovery that human speech started 200,000 years ago as a result of a single mutation. See also this Washington Post article.
USA/UK spelling Jeremy Smith's notes on USA versus British spelling differences.
Emu speech database At Macquarie University, Australia.
Universal Networking Language ``UNL System is a software system that resides in the Internet, which consists of the UNL (the Universal Networking Language, an electronic language for the Internet), the DeConverter (a deconversion system from the UNL to a native language), the EnConverter (an enconversion system from a native language to the UNL), the Dictionary System, the Language Servers based on these software and a set of network system procedures to access these components.'' I think this means it's some sort of automatic natural language translation system.
German spelling The so-called German spelling `reform'. The sooner this is dropped, the better.
ISO 639. List of 2-letter language codes.

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