What is your favorite language resource on the web?
Where do you go to find correct usage? Spelling? Inspiration?
What tools should people be aware of? References? Translators?
What other interesting language resources are out there?
Guidelines:
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Daniel Olson
http://www.onelook.com
I had others, but I was only allowed one hyperlink.
Yes, OneLook looks up words in more than 25 dictionaries. Example: http://www.onelook.com/?w=inactivate
colin dabritz
[ Editor ]
Common Errors In English Usage
This page lists a lot of common errors, by error. It is a handy reference for clearing up usage problems, as well as a fun, funny and educational site to browse.
Examples:
I’d thumb this one up multiple times if I could. I find Common Errors to be one of the most helpful grammar/spelling/usage sites out there.
A single long text only page with all the errors is at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.txt
The fun part begins near “MORE ERRORS”, page http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/more.html in the web version.
Silly Billy
That would be my favourite language resource on the web. I use the dictionaries extensively (particularly the English-French one), and I'm in love with the language forums as well.
Daniel Olson
Daniel Olson
Mikhail
[ Editor ]
For German to English/French/Spanish/Italian/Chinese/Russian it is http://dict.leo.org/
It is a dictionary and forum. It has audio for spelling.
Olivier Lalonde
[ Admin ]
When I want to translate something that can't be translated literally (for instance, a specialized term or a word that has many conotations), I usually type the term in Wikipedia and see how it is translated in the "Languages" column on the left.
For example, Tax Haven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven) links to Paradis Fiscal in French (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradis_fiscal).
Daniel Olson
Jason Donald O'Conal
[ Editor ]
I find Ask Oxford to be an excellent resource.
Daniel Olson
Daniel Olson
Antelope - Natural Language Processing software
Peter Mortensen
[ Admin ]
polishmywriting.com works surprisingly well for checking spelling, grammar, and style. I especially like the style suggestions. They include flagging passive voice and hidden verbs. Many of the grammar suggestions are also very useful.
Note: JavaScript must be allowed from polishmywriting.com in order for it to work.
I discovered it through an answer to "Is there a web application to check English?".
colin dabritz
[ Editor ]
Google is a great resource for many uses.
uses for google:
This post is a Community Wiki so that other uses for Google may be added.
Note: I can not post the link to another question, this can be edited in later by a user who has that privilege. A search for 'little-trick-for-finding-the-right-language-construct' should find it. Remove this note once it is integrated.
alexandra
Linguee (currently German - English only)
Linguee will search bilingual texts in English and German for words and expressions.
Daniel Olson
Wordnik - Wordnik is billions of words, 423 million example sentences, 4.7 million unique words.
It has random word, word of the day, and a word blog.
Peter Mortensen
[ Admin ]
I primarily use Wiktionary to check spelling. It is clean and free of clutter.
In particular it includes common misspellings, e.g. dependant (of dependent), seperate, prefered, alot, compatability and wether (of weather or whether).
Peter Mortensen
[ Admin ]
I often do a normal Google search with a suspected misspelled word. E.g. searching for acomoddate will result in:
Did you mean: accommodate?
But it is not always reliable. For instance it will often flag normal English words used in the Commonwealth.
There are also a lot of false negatives.
xrmseotool
from Gemünden, Deutschland
SEO Tools released by XRM SEO
This is intended to be a community moderated list of resources. I intend to choose a ‘correct’ answer from the highly rated results (that are not my own) when it has had time to grow.
iRosetta.com for the win :D