Translate Three dictionaries. See Spanish-English translations with audio pronunciations, examples, and word-by-word explanations. WordNet is a large lexical database of English with up to 140,000 entries and more than 1.4 million words, developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. Instead of following the standard dictionary format, the WordNet dictionary is organized with an innovative and convenient approach. Miss Spelling's Spelling Bee A real-time Spelling Bee with sound! The complete toolbox to fix all your word problems and prepare you for the National Spelling Bee Contest. Now with 250 often confused English word pairs.
You mentioned motorway being equivalent to freeway or interstate. Note that 'freeway' is a Western (mostly California) term, which sounds as foreign to a Floridian as does motorway.
top up vs. fill up -- we do 'top off' our gas (petrol) tanks, after filling up, i.e., after the pump valve clicks off, one 'tops off' the tank to the nearest 5 or 10 cents.
bill vs. check (in a restaurant) -- in the Southeast, we tend to say 'bill'
While we do call a dollar a 'bill' rather than a 'note', all U.S. currency has the words 'Federal Reserve Note' printed on it.
If one borrows money from a bank, one 'takes out a note.'
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How does a barrister differ from a solicitor? They're all lawyers here.
I've never got (sic!) very clear on how our usage of 'post' vs. 'mail' compares, but we seem to reverse meanings in at least some cases.
In the U.S., a mailman or mail carrier carries the mail, while working forthe Post Office. He is a 'postal worker.' He puts the 'mail' in one's mail box. The large receptacles outside the post office or on a street corner, where one mails a letter, are called drop boxes.
You listed tea towel vs. dish cloth and dish towel. That's also a regional thing. In Pennsylvania, where my family is (not 'are') from, one washes dishes with a dish cloth, then dries them with a tea towel.In Florida, we wash with a dish rag and dry with a dish towel. I don'tknow of a site in the US where dishes are dried with a dish cloth.
Have you read 'The Mother Tongue -- English and How it Got that Way', by Bill Bryson? I think it was originally published in Britain. Exposure x4 bundle 4 0 7 188. It's a fascinating look at exactly this subject. Another favorite (without the 'u') book is 'Brit Think -- Ameri-Think'. It also has sections on difference in language, 'correct' vs. 'horrible' things to name a child (one will meet many boys named 'Randy' in the U.S., but never a Crinan and seldom a Malcolm. It also looks at ournational psyche -- what makes us 'tick.' It is quite insulting to both sides, but an embarrassing lot of truth among the insults.
I thought of another area of differing speech: our use of prepositions and articles with certain nouns. I believe you are 'at' school or university, are you not? We are 'in' school or 'in' or 'at' THE university.
Dictionaries aren’t just for looking up spellings and meanings of a broad selection of terms; you’ll find biographical, geographical, and medical dictionaries, among other specialized volumes. Here are five other categories of repositories of words, with a link to one online example of each.
1. Reverse Dictionaries A reverse dictionary enables you to type in a phrase that describes a word or phrase you’re trying to think of. The matching technology is imperfect, of course, but a reverse dictionary is your best chance for coming up with that elusive term. Try this reverse dictionary at the dictionary portal OneLook.com, or, if you prefer a print resource, check out the Illustrated Reverse Dictionary, by John Ellison Kahn.
2. Visual Dictionaries Visual dictionaries like this one provide visitors with illustrations of animate and inanimate things labeled with parts and components. Merriam-Webster’s publishes a print visual dictionary, but many others are available, including multilingual ones and those produced especially for children.
3. Beginners’/Learners’ Dictionaries The Cambridge University Press has, among its family of online dictionaries, one with simplified definitions; for American English specifically, Merriam-Webster offers Word Central, an online children’s dictionary that is helpful for learners of all ages without being juvenile in presentation. For a print version, use a dictionary for young students (like the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary) — though the child-oriented design of these books may put off older learners — or one for English-language learners.
4. Translation Dictionaries Online dictionaries that enable visitors to type in a word and receive its equivalent in another language (or obtain an English word by entering a foreign one) abound; many websites, such as Dictionary.com’s Translator site, include search engines for multiple languages. Of course, print translation dictionaries are also easy to find on the Internet and in bookstores. (Recently published ones available at used-book stores are a good bargain.)
5. Unusual-Words Dictionaries Numerous Web-savvy language aficionados have created online repositories of seldom-used and/or offbeat words; go, for example, to the Phrontistery. You’ll also find many similar print compendiums, such as The Word Lovers’ Dictionary: Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words, by Josefa Heifetz.
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