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Summary: A Fantastic Tool!
Review: Oxford University Press produced this CD-Rom version of their dictionary, and it is superb! Installed onto your hard-drive,
it is easy for the user to look up their choice of 350,000 words, phrases and definitions. This is a great tool for students, teachers and writers!The dictionary will display on your title bar as a drop down menu. It is actually designed to work as a module with other dictionaries produced in CD-Rom format by Oxford University Press. I use it frequently in combination with The Pop-up Oxford Thesaurus, and recently added The Pop-up Oxford-Hachette French-English dictionary. You can use as few or as many of the dictionaries as you like. With so many countries now participating in the European Union, it is essential for anyone who lives, studies or travels in Europe to be multi-lingual. Increasingly, it is important for American users to learn and use other languages -- particularly Spanish, and there is a dual-language version of this as well. The interlocking dual-language dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press work smoothly on a word document, as well as on a web-page. I have used other dictionary programs, but find that the English dictionary by Oxford is superior to the American Heritage dictionary available on Microsoft's Bookshelf. The American Heritage contains more slang, has shorter entries and is definitely designed for an American user. The Oxford University Press English dictionary lists both American AND British uses for words, has more definitions and the entries are more specific, with less slang.
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Summary: political bias in definitions
Review: The definitions and examples of use contain severe political bias.
Also, the dictionary is not useful for spelling checking because if you type in the word as you think it is spelled it will just say no. This is unlike other dictionaries that will give you many suggestions of words slightly different in spelling than your erroneous one.
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