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Topic: Dictionary

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Che Guevara
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary
Bad point(s):Lazy
Personality:Philosophical
Religion(s):Atheist
Favorite board game(s):Scrabble
Favorite food(s):Spanish
Favorite book(s):World Almanac
"American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster
The Bible
Interest(s):Latin,  French,  German
Starsign:Virgo
Favorite destination(s):Japan,  Spain
Favorite philosopher(s):Plato
Favorite quote(s):"A clever man commits no minor blunders." - Goethe (1749-1832)
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries One of the things that schools used were Latin-Dutch word lists with the conjugations and declensions modelled on Latin.
There are no prescribed conventions for vernacular English, and there are few dictionaries or grammars of vernacular English.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

The structure of the master dictionaries was to be based on the management of the termlists and not necessarily the way that the data would appear in any user applications.
Sentius was using the proprietary solution earlier for handling all the client specified annotations and standard dictionaries for richlinking the web content.
Export dictionaries into comma separated files for backup or to load into other usable forms, i.
Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant

Our dictionaries list what we believe to be the most common form of that word, puggaree , which is of Hindi origin and denotes a light scarf usually worn wrapped around a sun helmet.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Most existing character dictionaries are based on classical Chinese sources, and thus often list rare and archaic meanings.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

All dictionaries are failures because they cannot include every word, every sense of every word, and every colorful expression uttered by every English speaker on the face of the planet.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Arabic Dictionaries makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy and Arabic Dictionaries specifically disclaims any liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content on the Site.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Many of these writers were accused of artificially reinventing a language because they recoursed to Scots Dictionaries and older literary works to increase and developed their already substantial native Scots vocabularies.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

We also have a great number of scientific and cultural Programmes dictionaries and encyclopedias that our students use for the purpose of research in all scientific aspects.
Scientific and Medical Dictionaries Online - Link collection designed to help you find an online science or medical dictionary.
 
 
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