Dictionary Sites

Just hunting around Digg and found a second or third page digg on the re-design of Dictionary.com - a semi-useful online dictionary site that seems to be a lote more popular than it deserves to be.

Apparently the site has been re-designed with a css only layout - not really worked that well as it still looks bloody awful and now it doesn’t even auto focus on the search box.

There are a number of other dictionary sites out there with much better definitions - ok so the designs might even be worse than Dictionary.com but the actual content makes up for that.

You could just head over to askoxford.com and get a basic definition of a word you’re looking for from the Oxford English Dictionary (consise version) or if you’re British and have a library card you can use the full version of the OED for nothing.

Just go to dictionary.oed.com and sign up with your library card number and away you go.

What’s your favourite online dictionary and how important are they in a world of spell checkers everywhere and in everything?

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