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Writers often need help in choosing words. This project is working to develop tools that will help writers by showing them some of the alternative ways by which they can express their ideas.

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I dare you to challenge me to find a word that you think I may not be able to find. You think I can’t find cantankerous? Hah! I typed in only the first six letters, and the word populated itself onto my iPhone screen. Not only did this neat little App give me the definition of the word, it also will tell me how to properly pronounce it! The New Oxford American Dictionary from Handmark has more than 250,000 entries and definitions you can access anytime, anywhere.

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I used to yell out “Padiddle!” when I would see a car coming down the road with only one headlight on. It was an ongoing fun, silly game. Padiddle may not be in a dictionary, but it is still a word! What do you do when you want to get a word out there, and make its definition known? You might want to try using Urban Dictionary.

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