asting a spell on English

by Stephen Bullon on November 24, 2009

When you’re looking for a word that you’ve heard, or only half-remember having ever seen, it can be tricky using a paper dictionary. You might look up shedule, not realising that there’s a C involved; or if you want to make a clamour you might look for a claxon (though what you really need is a klaxon). Paper dictionaries can be rather unforgiving. You can spend as long as forever looking through the pages of words beginning with sh but to your great chagrin you won’t find the entry for chagrin.

Dear teachers!

Have you ever been in the situation when your students ask you the word to define or to translate and you don’t know? You have an answer-a dictionary. Ok. You open the dictionary and … no such word. I was thinking what to do and found the answer. I decided to create a good dictionary for teachers. I will start and when you look, please add your new words which are rare to be found in the dictionaries. Here I also list words which I use in my e-lessons. I will call it Teachers’ Collective Dictionary (TCD). I will update it every week.
The abbreviations:
WDS – Webster’s Dictionary for Students
MSD – Macmillan School Dictionary
? – This sign mean that nobody could find the definition of the word yet your help is necessary. You can send the definition to this word via “contact us”. Don’t forget about the resource.