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This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
Eyrie, a novel by Tim Winton "Hope Eyrie" (a.k.a. "The Eagle Has Landed"), a song by Leslie Fish; The Eyrie, a castle in A Song of Ice and Fire and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version:
A dictionary may not even be consistent between one edition and the next. This table correlates the more widely used dictionaries with the conventions of the IPA key that is used on Wikipedia . Most dictionaries transcribe a specific dialect or accent, such as the Received Pronunciation (RP) of the Oxford English Dictionary , or a narrow range ...
This phenomenon is used to describe incidents where a familiar entity is encountered in a frightening, eerie, or taboo context. [2] [3] Ernst Jentsch set out the concept of the uncanny, later elaborated on by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay "Das Unheimliche", which explores the eeriness of dolls and waxworks. [4]
Eerie, a 2018 Filipino horror film; Eerie Publications, a publisher of comics magazines; Eerie, Indiana, a 1991–92 television series Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, a 1998 spin-off television series; The Eeries, a U.S. rock band; Christina Von Eerie (born 1989), U.S. professional wrestler; Battle of Hill Eerie, several Korean War battles
The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.
Story is the earlier spelling. The Oxford English Dictionary states that this word is "probably the same word as story [in its meaning of "narrative"] though the development of sense is obscure." [176] One of the first uses of the (now British) spelling "storey" was by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 (Uncle Tom's Cabin xxxii). sulphate, sulfate [177]