Rumors are rampant in the tiny, tight-knit world of dictionary compilers about what inside sources are calling "the deal of the century, no matter what century this actually is": the impending acquisition by a consortium of companies -- including America Online Time Warner, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Yahoo and AT&T -- of the English language.
The tiny Collins Gem French-English dictionary I use claims over 50,000 references in about half the Ectaco's volume.
You don't want your tiny little boy/girl lugging a dictionary sized planner all day long!
If you looked up "midlist author" in the dictionary, you might find a tiny black-and-white picture of me in the margin.
Fun tip: the more pages there are in the dictionary, the less likely your tiny scrawls are to be discovered.
Unlike T9, it is not based on a dictionary, but on a series of tiny rules that enable it to predict, given what has already been typed, which letter the user is most likely to want next.
On the high end, Mr. Lee talked about the company's popular electronic dictionaries in Korea -- they look like tiny laptops with little keyboards.
She grew up with an interest in western art, and recalls poring over tiny reproductions of old masters printed at the back of her Larousse dictionary.
Mr. Friedman has, for example, made a drawing by squeezing every word in a dictionary onto a large square of paper in very, very tiny blue script.
In tiny Eastport, Maine, there is a special display featuring a newly-completed 1200-page dictionary of nearby Native American Indian language, Passamaquoddy-Maliseet.
