December 04, 2009

Google Dictionary

Goggle recently added a dictionary to their list of services available online. Go to it by clicking on the title of this posting. When it opens consider setting a favorite, or bookmark, or whatever your Internet browser calls the link to a web site you want to get to easily.

Google's Dictionary is a good example a trending shift to online software. I've had American Heritage Dictionary (AHD) software on my computer so long I can't even remember when I bought it. But now I can open the Google Dictionary, find what I want, and be through before I can load and open my AHD software. I'll probably still use the AHD software occasionally because it has some features Google doesn't. For example, it will pronounce words for me. I love that feature because I can't look at a new word and be sure I am saying it correctly.

And what about my printed version of the AHD? I still have that to but I quit using it when the print in it started shrinking about 20 years ago. The print is now so small my glasses and a magnifying glass hardly does any good. Hope that same problem doesn't happen to the online version.