Language & Literature
Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary
University of Birmingham users only- The Oxford English Dictionary is the
accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to
the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, present and past.
- If you are a University of Birmingham user
connecting from off-campus you should
click here
to use the Oxford English Dictionary. You will need a personal ATHENS username and
password, which is obtainable from most Information Services libraries.
- yourDictionary.com
- Formerly A Web of Online Directories.
A gateway of major dictionaries, grammars and thesauri available
on the Web. Includes links to dictionaries in over 100 languages,
and a range of specialised English dictionaries
- Eurodicautom
- A multilingual dictionary of European
languages.
- Merriam-Webster Online
- An English (US) dictionary. The WWW
equivalent of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
Specialist dictionaries
- The
specialty English dictionaries page
- of yourDictionary.com. Includes
scientific dictionaries, dialect dictionaries and a vast range of other specialised
dictionaries
Translation
- Alta Vista automatic
translation service
- Provides a rough, automatic translation of
either individual web pages or of typed text. Can translate between English and French,
German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish
- Google
automatic translation service
- More of the
same!
Language and Literature
- Online English Grammar
- Descriptions of the main parts of speech.
Includes a search facility.
- Literature Online
University of Birmingham only
- Literature resources online. Including English
Poetry (600-1900), Shakeseare's plays, several versions of the Bible in English and a
number of other poetry, plays and prose works.
- Bartlett's
familiar quotations
This site belongs to:
Chris Porter. Birmingham, UK. Created:
12 March 2004 [Last updated:27 April 2004]