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Abbreviations.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet.

The online searchable American Heritage Dictionary includes definitions, pronunciations, etymologies, and feature notes.

The American National Corpus (ANC) project is creating a massive electronic collection of American English, including texts of all genres and transcripts of spoken data produced from 1990 onward. The ANC will provide the most comprehensive picture of American English ever created, and will serve as a resource for education, linguistic and lexicographic research, and technology development. When completed, the ANC will contain a core corpus of at least 100 million words, comparable across genres to the British National Corpus (BNC). Beyond this, the corpus will include an additional component of potentially several hundreds of millions of words, chosen to provide both the broadest and largest selection of texts possible.

A free online pronouncing dictionary with Instant Sound. American and British spellings, with British English pronunciations. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers. Corpus includes the General Service List of commonly used English words

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Dictionary, Thesaurus, and more- with BlueRider you can listen to how the word you are researching is spoken.

Differences between British, Canadian and American Spelling

Differences between British, Canadian & American vocabulary

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Cooldictionary.com is unique: it helps you not only find words in the Webster dictionary, but also gives you the examples of how they are used in classical books. It is fully crosslinked, so that you can follow it from one word to another. The sound icon lets you hear the pronunciation of individual words or even the entire classical literature quotes.

The following are some of the corpora that have been created by Mark Davies, Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Brigham Young University.

Smoothing transatlantic communication

Bilingual dictionary portal with 30 languages in 900 combinations. Dictionaries were created by linguists. Contains phrasebooks, recorded pronunciation and usage for some languages.

Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, crossword puzzles and other word games, online translator and Word of the Day.

Complete dictionaries of definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also includes tools to make words with letters or find words containing certain letters at certain positions, a scrabble word finder, etc..

Pronunciation dictionary with recordings of native speakers

Wondering how to use a particular word in a sentence? Can't phrase your sentences in a clear and concise way? Welcome to FrazeIt, with more than 100 million sentences. Useful to the writing community, from professional writers to college and ESL students & teachers.

Access and Search dozens of online dictionaries. Find words, phrases rhymes, and concepts. Scan millions of entries.

English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one.

Free Thesaurus is a comprehensive online thesaurus of synonyms, antonyms, and related words. The thesaurus contains more than 145,800 unique entries from three top sources: Collins Thesaurus of the English Language - Complete and Unabridged, The American Heritage Roget's Thesaurus, and WordNet.

JustTheWord can justify your choice of words or suggest improvements - and JustTheWord knows about the common errors made by speakers of your mother tongue.

Learning the thousands of words needed to be comfortable in a language is a great challenge. The vocabulary guides are in essence virtual worlds. Users visit different parts of this world (i.e. insects, the family, the farm). They can then place their cursor over any of the images and hear their names pronounced and see them spelled out. In some pages, a notepad is displayed next to the title. Placing the cursor over this notepad will reveal a list of supplementary vocabulary

A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.

LITTLE EXPLORERS makes surfing the Internet very easy. A picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world. Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf with a minimum of help and guidance from their favorite adult. Older kids can use Little Explorers as a school reference.