Sunday, January 15, 2006
Web tricks.
What do you do if you can't figure out how to spell a word, and you've got to use the web to find the answer? (Hypothetically, you're on a desert island with nothing but DSL access, or your dictionaries have all been lent out, etc.) What I just did was to think of a song using the word -- in this case, Husker Du's "Dead Set On Destruction" -- and search for the lyrics. Maybe there's an even better way to do this -- e.g., one with fewer pop-ups.
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If you don't know how to spell a word, the dictionary is not much good. (Maybe those are, actually, but I tried wiktionary and apparently was not close enough.)
I wouldn't recommend this technique if you were searching for lyrics of songs by Slade (or Sly & The Family Stone come to that . . .)
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