Canter Bridge

When you bought this sturdy little pocket dictionary, you didn’t order salmon and a nice Chardonnay.

You ordered a Wendy’s burger with fries and skip the super-sizing. (more…)

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I use the Harper Collins Spanish College Dictionary on my desktop for finding quick glosses when I’m translating from Spanish to English or vice versa and need a quick memory jog. It’s not a particularly complex dictionary and so it’s great for this purpose. (more…)

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The signature yellow Langenscheidt dictionaries are like duct tape for students and others who need to have a tough, mobile, dependable bilingual dictionary that sticks to the basics without being primitive.

It meets the need in French as well as it does in German and other mainstream academic languages. (more…)

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Latin is everywhere.

Maybe your Roman Catholic grandma has a mysterious phrase she repeats all the time. Perhaps you’re an academic reader and you keep stumbling upon expessions like ‘inter alia’, ‘et cetera’, ‘ibid’, ‘pace’, and the like. It’s possible you’ve stood and stared up at the semi-compelling statue in your town square, scratched your head, and told yourself the thing would be completely compelling if you had a clue what the Latin inscription on its base was rattling on about. (more…)

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