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Merriam-Webster’s Dictionaries Available for iPhone & iPod Touch (EContent Magazine)

Sun, 17 Nov 2008 04:04:52 GMT

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Webster’s Dictionaries application released in App Store

Fri, 8 Nov 2008 07:14:46 GMT

posted by topiphonenews

Leading technology developers for mobile devices, Paragon Software Group, has launched the world-famous Merriam-Webster’s Dictionaries application for iPhone and iPod Touch. The application consists of one explanatory and two bilingual – Spanish-English and French-English dictionaries.

The database contains over 476,00 entries with more than 143,000 etymologies detailing word origins, 100,000 quotations and 1,100 synonymy paragraphs. You can access the dictionary anywhere without an Internet connection. The Merriam-Webster’s French-English Dictionary provides the most extensive coverage of Canadian French words and phrases.

The Merriam-Webster’s Spanish English Dictionary covers Latin American and European Spanish, and contains over 80,000 entries and 100,000 translations. The application uses a SlovoEd engine that compresses the database for minimum memory space while still allowing users to quickly perform multiple lookups. In addition you can perform simple one-touch translations on the go.

The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary

Sun, 27 Oct 2008 11:47:00 GMT

posted by maftukhin

A completely revised and updated edition of this best-selling language reference is now available. Covers the core vocabulary of everyday life with over 75,000 clear, concise definitions. Includes pronunciations, word origins and synonym lists. Special sections and tables.

Since 1937. Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition – America's best-selling desk dictionary – and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster can be considered the direct lexicographical heir of Noah Webster. In 1843, the company bought the rights to the 1841 edition of Webster's magnum opus, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged. At the same time, they secured the rights to create revised editions of the work. Since that time, Merriam-Webster editors have carried forward Noah Webster's work, creating some of the most widely used and respected dictionaries and reference books in the world.

Merriam Webster's Dictionaries Unabridged Collegiate Dictionary + Sound Module (Full)

Wed, 6 Nov 2008 16:32:00 GMT

posted by rajubd

1.Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Dictionary database is powered by Merriam-Webster Inc.
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate dictionary contains more than 225,000 definitions (75,600 dictionary entries) and more than 10,000 new words. America’s best-selling dictionary!

2.Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Dictionary database is powered by Merriam-Webster Inc.
English explanatory dictionary contains 700,000 definitions (over 263,000 dictionary entries), etymologies and extended thesaurus. The largest and most comprehensive American dictionary.

3.Sound Module
Hi-quality pre-recorded pronunciation of 100 000 words, provided by native speaker

First of all Copy all file and 'MW' folder to root of Mass Memory (N95 8Gb) Or your Memory Card

1.Istall Merriam Webster v_3.0.sis on E:\
2.Install Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary(N301B0-00474-30719-81790).sis on E:\
3.Install Morphology module.sis on E:\
4.Run Merriam Webster app, register 2 dictionary with N301B0-00474-30719-81790 and N31F05-21801-58622-42114
5.Install Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(SN302-2088-UQLMA-NBPBZQYE-CNQD).sis on E:\
6.Move both 020D.PRC and 2088.PRC to directory E:\resource\apps\SlovoEdDictsWeb on your phone memory card. (Mass memory)
(the 2088.prc will make the dictionary engine treat the M-W Unabridged dictionary database as a SlovoEd file,
so that the SlovoEd registration code can be used)
7.Start Webster and register M-W dictionary (Serial: SN302-2088-UQLMA-NBPBZQYE-CNQD)
8. Optional: close Webster, delete 2088.PRC from the dictionary directory as it is useless after Step 7 is completed.
9.Restart the Webster application, you will see the dictionary in use is M-W Unabridged!!!

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Merriam-Webster Honors Lyrically Misunderstood Lady Mondegreen

Sat, 13 Jul 2008 17:37:00 GMT

posted by jessed
If you have ever misheard a song or poem and come up with your own version of the words, you are already familiar with the concept of the "mondegreen," one of over 100 new words included in the annual update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.

Mondegreen-a noun defined as a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung-was first coined by author Sylvia Wright in 1954, when she wrote an article for Atlantic magazine confessing to a childhood misinterpretation of the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Moray." When she first heard the lyric "they had slain the Earl of Moray and had laid him on the green," she felt terribly sorry for the "poor Lady Mondegreen." The tradition has been going strong ever since, from "The ants are my friends," a mangling of "The answer, my friends," by Bob Dylan, to "There's a bathroom on the right," a bungling of "There's a bad moon on the rise," by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

To celebrate the release of this year's new entries, Merriam-Webster OnLine (Merriam-Webster.com) is inviting the general public to submit their own favorite mondegreens -- both original and overheard. Submissions are due now through July 25th, with favorites being revealed and featured online the week beginning July 28th.

2008 also features more than a few words from the growing field of culinary arts, from prosecco (a sparkling Italian wine) and soju (a Korean vodka distilled from rice) to edamame (immature green soybeans) and pescatarian (a vegetarian whose diet includes fish). Current societal trends are reflected in this year's entries, as well. According to John Morse, Merriam-Webster's president and publisher, webinar is "one more example of the significant ongoing trend for electronic technologies to add words to the language." Morse also comments on another, more ominous term: "Norovirus being added is part of an ongoing effort to cover terms from virology that we think the public may need to know about. Not a happy job, but one that lexicographers have to do."

All new dictionary entries are now available online, and the 2008 print update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, Eleventh Edition will be available in bookstores across the country September 1st, 2008. Both will feature this fresh crop of new words and phrases that have successfully become part of the mainstream English language through prolonged and widespread usage in a variety of publications.

Website: http://www.merriam-webster.com/