[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[Skip Fox]

David,

 

Great, another "Favorite."

 

I too love Brewer and have a dozen mythological dictionaries (Graves is
always interesting), a dictionary of nursery rhymes, several foreign
dictionaries, a copy of Johnson's (I couldn't keep Bierce . . . too dark), a
handlist of rhetorical terms, dictionary of euphemisms. Maybe if I get time
next week I'll try to see if any of these have web access that you might not
have and pass on.

 

. . . .

 

Halvard, does the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language of
Onelook have the Indo-European roots? I couldn't find. 

 

(Not all print versions have the Indo-European roots in the back. Ones needs
to check.)

 

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of David Graham
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:25 AM
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Subject: [New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

 


Pardon me for one more toot of the horn.  My Poetry Library also contains a
page called Craft Toolbox, which links to various dictionaries and other
reference works online.  Onelook is there, along with rhyming dictionaries,
references on prosody & rhetoric, thesauruses, glossaries of poetic forms &
terms, and more.  Suggestions for additions always welcome!

http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/Craft%20Toolbox.html

And:  has anyone mentioned the marvelous Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase &
Fable?

David Graham



On 9/23/08 11:15 AM, "Skip Fox" <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:

This is good, but I don't see The Random House Dictionary of American Slang,
Webster's International Unabridged, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary,
or The Completre Dictionary of Sexology as well as some of the "wicked
words" dictionaries or etymological ones.
 
But, you're right, this is LOVELY!! (And since I have can get OED on-line
through the univ. . . . hell, with a colostomy bag and this I'll may never
have to leave home again, as they say.) Thanks.
 

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