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Merriam-Webster Online - dictionary and thesaurus
Compact Oxford English Dictionary
OneLook Dictionary Search
Roget's Interactive Thesaurus
The Internet Acronym Server
Answers.com - a snapshot look at a number of sources
Wikipedia - a good source for new computer and technology terms
Double-Tongued Word Wrester - words new to the English language
Urban Dictionary - an interactive slang dictionary

We suggest these titles:

423 O98se The Oxford English dictionary (20 volumes)
423 CAN The Canadian Oxford dictionary - Canadianisms!
423.1 ACR Acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary

For more books about words, search under these subjects:

English language - Dictionaries
English language - Synonyms and antonyms - Dictionaries
English language - Slang - Dictionaries
English language - Idioms - Dictionaries
English language - Usage - Dictionaries
Acronyms

For books on words in a particular field of study, try a subject-specific dictionary:

Business - Dictionaries
Computers - Dictionaries
Botany - Dictionaries

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This guide was last updated September 2006.

 

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