Posts Tagged ‘Macmillan Dictionary’
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Posted by Beth Penfold on March 01, 2011
This week, many of you have been searching the Macmillan Dictionary for the word acquaintance. I’m not sure how successful you will have been initially, because this word was often typed in without the first ‘c’. I can see how easy it is to make this mistake. In English, the letters ‘qu’ make the phonetic sound [...]
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Posted by Beth Penfold on January 25, 2011
In this post (my second on ‘words on your mind’), I see that you have all been out having a great time without me again. You gave yourselves away by so many of you searching for the term fun-filled in Macmillan Dictionary recently. Fun-filled is a lovely compound adjective used to describe something that is [...]
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Posted by Dawn Nell on November 25, 2010
This week Dawn Nell, the second in a series of guest bloggers who are contributing to this blog over a two-week period, is looking at the ways that you (users) search Macmillan Dictionary. Dawn, who has written before on this blog, is an historian and blogger, working on the history of publishing. She was born [...]
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Posted by Stan Carey on November 10, 2010
As you know from last Wednesday’s post on ‘man-words’, Stan Carey is the first in a series of guest bloggers who will be contributing to our blog for two weeks at a time until Christmas. The first of their posts will be on the subject of ‘Global English’ and the second will look at the [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on September 03, 2010
Thomas J. Watson, head of the IBM Corporation from 1924 to 1956, is supposed to have said “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”. As with many famous quotations, there is a good deal of uncertainty as to whether Watson ever really said this. But history is full of predictions which, [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on August 19, 2010
Joel Berg’s blog on the use (and avoidance) of the word hunger shows how words can gain (and lose) meanings in response to social and environmental changes. Historically, hunger was part of the universal human experience – like war, plague, drought and famine. For far too many people, these remain more than just abstract concepts [...]
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Posted by Lindsay Clandfield on May 11, 2009
I am always on the lookout for new and interesting sites for my students or student-teachers. When I heard that the Macmillan Dictionary had just gone online, I thought it would be worth taking a look. Being an English teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer and occasional blogger though, my time is somewhat at a premium. [...]
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