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#2581 09/22/00 08:43 AM
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Jo, thanks for this. It's exactly the kind of steer that's so useful to newcomers. What a great resource. A few more like this and I'll be an (Anglican) adherent to the tsuwm creed of the great god LIU


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>These are not actually dictionaries, but should be of interest to AWADers...

Wow, Bingley that was a really good steer. It's taken me 'til the weekend to get time to check it out, but I loved where the Quinion.com site took me. In case others haven't yet LIU I strongly recommend the trial. I got led to these other sites which might interest AWADers too:

http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/Information.html
DE PROVERBIO
"Founded in January 1995 as the world's first refereed electronic journal of international proverb studies, De Proverbio soon became a book publisher also, devoted to paremiology (study of proverbs) and paremiography (collection of proverbs)." (their intro)

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Voice of the Shuttle
A superb general gateway to the humanities (I'm probably teaching most regulars how to suck eggs, but if one person finds a useful link...)

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html
Writers’ Resources page lists hundreds of links, and if there is not at least one here for every AWADer... well, try the home page, then!

On a less specific note, I still find
http://www.britannica.com/
has a good general searching and linking ability.

This is such a useful self-help group: praise be the LIU






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>These are not actually dictionaries, but should be of interest to AWADers...

Wow, Bingley that was a really good steer.


Are you implying the sites are a load of bull? If so, we shall have to milk the web for other sites to cow you with, starting with:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/genpub/GLOSSARY_OF_DAIRY_TERMS.html

Bingley



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Are you implying the sites are a load of bull? If so, we shall have to milk the web for other sites to cow you with, starting with:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/genpub/GLOSSARY_OF_DAIRY_TERMS.html



How cheesy!




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other sites to cow you with...
Oh, surely some miss steak? I was a dairy farmer once, but having checked this site I remember why I gave it up


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Oh, surely some miss steak?

Well, if I gave it up, I'd miss it. Maybe paulb does.
Heifer I eat it, I like it. It is udderly delicious.
(ow, ow, ow--I've got to learn to duck faster!)


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You-all, this may have been posted before, but this site gives access to dictionaries, incl. some foreign, encyclopedias, and news, and...and...and...

http://www.refdesk.com/




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< Maybe paulb does>

Not at all, Jackie. I'm more than satisfied with a plateful of baked vegies, and a salad, and cheese, and nuts -- and, of course, the odd Anzac biscuit!


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-- and, of course, the odd Anzac biscuit!

What's so odd about the delectable Anzac biscuit?



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... but still dead useful for newbies, so thanks Jackie


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