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The design of Basic English drew heavily on the semiotic theory put forward by Ogden and Richards in their 1923 book The Meaning of Meaning. [2] Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in World War II as a means for world
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: Pearson-Longman: 1978 6th (ISBN 9781447954194) 2014 (17.04) 2,224 165,000 British: Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners: Macmillan Education: 2002 2nd (ISBN 9781405025263) 2007 1,748 British: Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: Merriam-Webster: 2008 2nd (ISBN ...
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.
The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), first published by Longman in 1978, [1] is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily. It is available in four configurations:
DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group [1] in 1997, described by RFC 2229. [2] Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol to allow clients to access a variety of dictionaries via a uniform interface.
Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
Simple English Wikipedia was launched on September 18, 2001. [1] [2]In 2012, Andrew Lih, a Wikipedian and author, told NBC News' Helen A.S. Popkin that the Simple English Wikipedia does not "have a high standing in the Wikipedia community", and added that it never had a clear purpose: "Is it for people under the age 14, or just a simpler version of complex articles?", wrote Popkin.
The Simple English Wikipedia uses fewer words and simpler grammar than the original English Wikipedia.It is focused on readers who tend to be quite different from the typical Wikipedia reader with different needs, for example, people for whom English is not a first language, students, children, translators, and people with learning disabilities or those who read below a proficient level.