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Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com
ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Google has expanded its remit once again with the quiet launch of Google Dictionary. Google word search definitions now redirect to Google Dictionary instead of to Google's long term thesaurus goto site, Answers.com, which is expected to take a serious hit in traffic as a result. Dictionary pages are noticeably more plain and faster loading than their Answers.com equivalents, and unusually feature web citations for the definitions of each word. This means that, unlike most dictionaries, Google considers ginormous a word."
...we will have to pay to use any words that are in google dictionary. That's why frequently used but non-dictionary words like "ginormous" are in there. I notice that my native Irish (Gaelic) isn't there, so I'll just put on another few layers of tin foil and start speaking Irish
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If it's in the Oxford, then it's a bloody word! http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/ginormous?view=uk ... And that's the Compact dictionary - so it's definitely in the ginormous one!
Agreed, it's perfectly cromulent.
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Heck, a ginormous vocabulary embiggens even the smallest man.
It depends though, Urban Dictionary you can usually figure out what a word that someone says really means. Using traditional dictionaries you would think that someone says that someone sucks on a rooster...
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
You should've googled it.
irony++
"We're a monopoly, you say? Sir, the word 'monopoly' is not even in my dictionary." ...in fact, everything from 'marzipan' to 'morass' seems to be missing.
But what is with Google's pronunciation/phonetic spelling guide?
ginormous /danms/ DJ listen /-nrm-/ DJ US listen /da'nrms/ KK US
It follows the International Phonetic Alphabet, and I for one, don't like it. It's different. It's change. It's communism. I think it leads us one step closer to total Islamohitlerobamification.
You missed the best part of the story summary; the Answers.com link goes to the definition of the word "divorce". I lolled, is that in the dictionary?
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You're embiggening this thread with that cromulent comment.
Wow. French people have a different word for everything.
And how, pray tell, does one speak sign language?
It's easier than it sounds...
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