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Beyond words: Collocations

If you don’t have one, get one. It’s not the reference book I use most, but it’s definitely my favorite. It’s the BBI Dictionary of Word Combinations, by Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert Ilson.
According to Wikipedia’s entry on the topic, a collocation refers to “the restrictions on how words can be [...]

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The state of terminology research on-line and off

A proper translator’s resume used to include a line about the hundreds of dictionaries she had in her library. This practice is fading as the Internet’s content grows more comprehensive. Many early Internet glossaries, like sites in general, were inchoate and neglected, and “real” dictionaries remained indispensible. One [...]

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