All students in Garnsey Campus now have at their disposal the Macquarie Online Dictionary which can be accessed via the ISC portal space and also via the Online Reference Centre in the ISC Libguides. It is a paid subscription that has many features such as :
- Easy interactive searching of over 138,000 words and phrases and over 210,000 definitions
- Annual update of new words.It contains 1,000's of new words such as fiscal cliff,green tap, hobo glove and mummy blog!
- words relating to science,technology and business such as guanxi,growth hacking and crowd sourcing
- words and phrases from regional Australia gathered from Australian Word Map
- etymologies for words
- grammar and punction guides and audio pronunciations
- Word of the Day, Aussie Word of the Week and Word of the Year
Just out of interest,the Macquarie Dictionary Committe's 2013 winner of Word of the Year was "infovore". It's a person who craves information,especially one who takes advantage of their ready access to it on digital devices.I am sure you will know many of these!The Committe thought these people were in danger of becoming addicted to instant information and this reflected a significant change in how we conduct our lives.
The People's Choice for 2013 was a "onesie". Need I say anything more!
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