Debate
Posted on July 1, 2004 by Ching under Life.
Ahh, the things you find when your’re playing on the internet in the middle of the night because you can’t sleep! This is a discovery that is truly worth bookmarking. Merriam-Webster Online. You can’t say I don’t give you cool links. LOL!
I know this is kind of nerdy of me but I’m an avid user of Dictionary.com — I even have the toolbar built in to my Internet Explorer browser for easy access. The main deficiency that I have found is that when you want to hear pronounciations of things, you have to pay for a premium membership of some sort. The option is available, but only to paying users. I always thought that was BS because Brian and I have argued about the pronounciations of things many a night and our arguments have gone unresolved because I cannot prove to him that I am right. He assumes that because he is American and he can speak American English he’s pronouncing it right. Yes, I admit, due to my noticeable accent sometimes I mispronounce certain words but I know the words that I feel uncertain about and I know the words that I feel sure of..
The Merriam-Webster website is the solution to my dilemma. It not only gives you the meanings of words, it pronounces it for free! Yay! For instance, I pulled up “dilapidate” because Brian always says “dilapitate” and I insist it’s “dilapidate” because there is no such word as “dilapitate” but he won’t believe me. I mean, I should know. I came come [thanks, mom] from a country where the word is used with considerable frequency. Everything, and I mean everything, in my old neighborhood was dilapidated!
Anyway, I put the link in my favorites under study tools. I think it will prove to be very, very useful. Not just for actual school work but it will help to settle many, many domestic debates in the future.
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