Finding help online

Here are a few online sites that will help writers and editors:

Net Info Base
http://www.netinfobase.com/default.asp?cmd=dict

Dictionary.com
 http://dictionary.reference.com/

Merriam-Webster
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

YourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Webster's Online Dictionary
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/

OneLook Dictionary Search
 http://www.onelook.com/

WordCentral
http://www.wordcentral.com/

alphaDictionary
http://www.alphadictionary.com/index.shtml

DICT.org
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict

You might also try:

Acronyms and Abbreviations. Also search by keywords to find the perfect or correct abbreviation for a word or phrase.
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/

Acronyms and Abbreviations.
http://www.acronymfinder.com

Bartleby Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/

The Clichés site
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/

The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Merriam-Webster Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/info/favorite.htm


Newseum "Interactive museum of news" contains everything from front-page news from around the world to Pulitzer prize-winning photographs and editorial cartoons.
http://www.newseum.org/

Quotations Page
 http://www.quotationspage.com

Reference site
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Rhyming Dictionary
 http://www.rhymer.com

A reader suggested this one:
http://fishcodelib.com/Dictionary.htm
If you know of more sites, I'd like to hear from you.

Contact: I can be reached at tgilli52@gmail.com or nc3022@yahoo.com. Also, my Twitter handle is EDITORatWORK.

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• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

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• Growl and pull

• 10 years with Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!

A good day for comments

Comments: I rarely get comments on this blog, so my three comments today are special. When I saw I had three comments on three different entries, I assumed there was one writer. No. There were three.

One of the comments was strictly complimentary. Freelance Web Designer Chennai said... Its highly informative. I would be visiting your blog hereafter regularly to gather valuable information.

Thanks. I like to learn new things, too.

The second comment referred to a blog entry on spell check: Tomer said... BTW, a good spell check program is Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Com). It adds spell checking to all programs, including blogs. It also has optional grammar checking. Might be of interest.

There is a spell check on this blog. It's been helpful, since I often mistype words as I type quickly.

The third comment: Lubna said... Wow, I didn't know that no word rhymes with my three favourite colours - silver, purple and orange.

Those are three of my favorite colors, too.

BTW, Lubna thanked me for posting a link on LinkedIn. The story I linked to is at The Story Teller. That particular story is not my own; most of them will be.

Thought for today: Why is the word abbreviated such a long word?

EMAIL: tgilli52@gmail.com TWITTER: EDITORatWORK

More EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!