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In today's Email from Michael Quinion - he of the words site - This commercial site, at http://www.dictionary.com/ allows you to look up a word from a variety of dictionary sources. A Q&A page allows queries to be posed to "Dr. Dictionary" (with an FAQ listing many answers). There are word games, online foreign dictionaries,and links to writing resources; you can also subscribe to a Word of the Day by e-mail.
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Sorry, Wow - I thought nearly all of us had Dictionary.com in our favourites. It's a direct lookup into the AHD plus a number of other "free" on-line dictionaries.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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sometimes a statement of the obvious is nutritious
My Dear--I encourage you and all other newcomers to give the "Helpful Hints & FAQs - Take 2" for newcomers thread a serious going-over. It may be too much to take in in one session, but you will find it WELL worth your while. It outlines pretty much all of the problems that we oldtimers have run into--the same ones that you are now encountering.
Thanks again to Jo for organizing it. We have taken pains to keep it not only distraction-free, but on the first page of the Index. This is an indication, I think, that we value and welcome people.
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Akshulee, I posted the opener to this thread because it had the "plug" for AWAD in it and thought it very nice of Mr Q to give us a mention! (sigh-e)  
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And I am still mildly bullshit about the many words wasted in AWADtalk about topics discussed by Quinion a couple years before they appeared in AWADtalk, despite fact some earliest members were familiar with his site but never gave us beginners the URL to it, which I think was very selfish.
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it had the "plug" for AWAD in it
Um . . . actually it doesn't. Many sites refer to a word of the day (M-W, OED), and if you look at dictionary.com you'll notice in the upper right that it's not AWAD that he's talking about.
EDIT: Also noticed that they have a discussion board over there. I browsed it as a guest and it's pretty bad, riddled with advertisements and a bad navigation system. Maybe someone should invite them here.
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>And I am still mildly bullshit about the many words wasted in AWADtalk about topics discussed by Quinion a couple years before they appeared in AWADtalk,
I am puzzled. This sounds like you are saying that because a topic has been discussed elsewhere, discussing here it is a waste of time. What a bizarre notion. I am quite sure that Mr Quinion would have no qualms about discussing a topic that had been covered here.
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>I am still mildly bullshit... oh! whatever gave you the notion that is was *mild, bill? 
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