LIS 520 Janes

Autumn 2001

Resource Set 2

Sources About Words and Their Uses (Dictionaries: College/Desk, Unabridged, Subject, Children’s, Historical, Reverse, Slang, Translation; Thesauri, Style Manuals, Quotations)

• Webster’s Third New International
• Random House Unabridged (2d ed)
• Oxford English 3d ed (in print, on Web), Shorter Oxford
• American Heritage 4^th ed (in print, on Web)
• Webster’s New World
• Microsoft Encarta World English (in print, on Web)
• Your Dictionary.com
• OneLook
• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
• Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang
• The Alternative Dictionaries
• Bernstein’s Reverse
• Casey’s Snow Day Reverse Dictionary and Guru
• Roget’s International 5^th ed
• thesaurus.com
• WordNet
• style manuals: University of Chicago, MLA, Turabian, American Psychological Association guide
• Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations in print, on Web (1919 10^th ed)
• Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• concordances: Shakespeare, Bible (Shakespeare on Web, Bible on Web)
• Anchor Bible Dictionary
• Sign Language Dictionary Online
• symbols.com
• I, Rearrangement Servant
• rhyming
• Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary
• WWW Acronym and Abbreviation Server
• other dictionaries of interest, quotations