# Do you have a dictionary within reach now? In the building? What brand?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 3, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-dictionary-within-reach-now-in-the-building-what-brand/48250 "2001-01-03T16:51:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-dictionary-within-reach-now-in-the-building-what-brand/48250/41 "2001-01-08T09:23:11Z")

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i have a Russian-English dictionary in my room on a cart and i know that somewhere in the wreckage that ther is also a thesaurus.  
A few steps away from the computer there is a 2-book  
illustrated dictionary, it was published by Reader’s Digest.

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-dictionary-within-reach-now-in-the-building-what-brand/48250/42 "2001-01-13T10:47:33Z")

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Webster’s Collegiate Dctonary

Also, Roget’s College Thesaurus

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-dictionary-within-reach-now-in-the-building-what-brand/48250/43 "2001-01-13T13:04:48Z")

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Within ready reach at home:  
The Macquarie Dictionary (the Macca Book of Words)  
The Concise Oxford Dictionary  
The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary  
Chambers Science and Technology Dictionary  
The Condensed Chemical Dictionary  
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable  
Partridge Usage & Abusage  
Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words  
Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words  
Penguin Dictionary of Politics  
Penguin Dictionary of Biology  
Collins Pocket French Dictionary  
Collins GEM Dictionary of Physics

The Macquarie Thesaurus  
Roget’s Thesaurus

also  
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations  
Green’s Dictionary of Contempory Quotations  
Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers  
The Australian Style Manual

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-dictionary-within-reach-now-in-the-building-what-brand/48250/44 "2001-01-13T17:26:46Z")

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Within reach? **Oxford Dictionary of Current English**. Online? [One Look Dictionaries](http://www.onelook.com/) - Dictionary word count = 2651366 words in 663 online dictionaries now indexed. I also have the **Mirriam-Webster Crossword Puzzle Dictionary** for when I get stuck on crosswords.

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-dictionary-within-reach-now-in-the-building-what-brand/48250/45 "2001-01-13T18:40:35Z")

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Is the Canadian Senior Dictionary.

It sounds like a dictionary for old Canadian people, but it’s not. Honest.

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