Thursday, 3 July 2014

Dictionaries comparison: Is it Webster, Cambridge or Oxford?

I think the Webster dictionary is more suited for me as a user of dictionary compared to Cambridge and Oxford. This is because Webster's wording is more familiar to me and suits me better which is probably in American English. I have been trained in the school in the Philippines using American English and using Webster dictionary. Probably, my judgement will be different if I have been trained and educated using the British style.

I also find Webster's website as more complete than the two others in terms of providing examples, synonyms and antonyms. It even has a section which provides rhymes for the word your are searching which is very useful if you are writing lyrics of a song or a poem. The website of Cambridge is full of advertisement photos which annoy me because it distracts and divides my attention when looking at the meaning of the word I am searching.

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I am Jose Alan Castillo from Philippines. I am married with 2 kids. I am a forester by training and I have been in the profession for 17 years now, as a research forester specifically doing studies on understanding the ecology of forest ecosystem, my last 10 years focused on mangrove forest. I have been trained and educated both for my undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of the Philippines in Los Banos, Laguna, some 65 km south of Manila, the Philippines capital. Currently, I live in Australia in Toowoomba, Queensland doing my PhD in the application of remote sensing technology in the study of biomass and soil carbon stock and sequestration of mangroves.