Christopher Sawtell wrote:

The only information conveyed accurately by a tirade of loquacious profanity is that its author is quite demonstrably a member of that herd of onanistic onagers which, as a genus, refuse to understand and appreciate that competent users of our Mother Tongue are blessed with the facility to express fine degrees of nuance unsurpassed by any other language.



There are still some gaps though. For example, there is no single English word for "just right". The sweedish have lagom, but English words all have connontations irrelevant to what lagom is.


Without doubt, you will find these links useful in the future.

http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~gebauerc/kdict/
http://www.dict.org/
http://www.m-w.com/



Thanks but I already have a diction:re or two ready at hand. The offer was a nice thought though.


And instead of dictionaries, may I suggest that a degree in English would be a more appropriate offer given the circumstances.

--
Paul Wilkins



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