Miguel de Icaza: Not being a native speaker means that sometimes my spelling is not great. I depend on Emacs ispell and Evolutions speller for many things, but recently I have started using Google's "define:word" to look up word definitions. Its just two keystrokes away: C-j define:word ENTER.

Ditto on the part about non-native English speakers' need for an on line dictionary.

Thanks for the part about Google's dictionary searches. I've been using the Dictionary GNOME applet on Linux. Now I can do the same on any box.

One thing that is missing from the Google "define:" searches—Google won't suggest alternatives. I would much rather Google say "Do you mean define:receive?" when I type in "define:recieve" than "No definitions were found for recieve."

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on August 27, 2005 9:08:30 AM CDT #