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In her lifetime she raised the money to buy 17,000 dictionaries for children in Savannah, Georgia. Annie Plummer died December 23, 1999. She inspired the creation of The Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization. The Dictionary Project was created in 1995 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Charleston, South Carolina.
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and worked with decades before.
Look up bairn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. [1] It originated in Old English as " bearn ", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. [2] In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. [3]
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the " define " operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press 's Oxford Languages. [3]
English language. Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Logos Dictionary free online with additional premium content. Online Etymology Dictionary. Urban Dictionary a user-supplied "dictionary" of slang. WordNet word database. Wordnik. Wordweb free and premium online English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His "Blue-Backed Speller" books taught generations of American children how to spell and read.