Resources


Ethnologue
A directory of 6,700 languages and 39,000 language names with detailed information on each country, its population, and languages.

One-Look Dictionary
Search 50 general and specialized English dictionaries simultaneously.

Webster's Dictionary:
Hypertext Webster Interface (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) (searchable Index)

Oxford Dictionary:
Shorter Oxford Dictionary (direct download link)
The complete shorter Oxford Dictionary word list, including part-of-speech information.

The Newbury House Online Dictionary
Based on the Newbury House Dictionary of American English (online search). It includes over 40,000 entries and it has a link to a database of 50,000 photos (for each word, you can press a "related photos" button to get the relevant pictures).

Your Dictionary
Dictionary & Thesaurus.

The LOGOS Dictionary
Multilingual dictionary.

Yahoo! Reference:Dictionaries:Language

EUR-Lex
European Union law in all EU.

Online Conversion
Convert just about anything to anything else.

U.S. Newspapers:

Washingtonpost.com

NYTimes.com

USAToday.com

Wall Street Journal Online

LATimes.com

ChicagoTribune.com

NYPost.com

International Newspapers:

Newspapers.com

Humor:

Blooper Sign
A photo from Chris Durban.

The Dialectizer
"Translates" plain English into a number of dialects. Just for fun!

Humorous poem of pitfalls of English pronunciation

Mistranslations
Here's someone who's collected the classic bloopers. 

Sounds of the World's Animals
A fun collection of the different sounds animals make as different languages express them.

Swedish Chef's "Encheferizer"
The ultimate in machine translation, brought to you by that gibberish-speaking Muppet. Converts plain ASCII to mock Swedish.

Pirate Translator
Ahoy! Giving the Swedish Chef a run for his money, you can now translate any site (provide the URL) into Pirate-talk.


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