{"id":1717,"date":"2004-09-24T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2004-09-24T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T21:18:21","slug":"the-word-bummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/the-word-bummer\/","title":{"rendered":"the word &#8220;bummer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordreference.com\/\">WordReference<\/a> used to have all the <a href=\"http:\/\/collinsdictionaries.com\/\">Collins dictionaries<\/a> available online, for free browsing. I was the main dictionary computing guy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.co.uk\/\">Collins<\/a> when this deal was made, and it was pretty cool to have a good, non-US English dictionary on the web.<\/p>\n<p>I gues the money has run out, as the Collins data has disappeared, and the English dictionary is derived from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogsci.princeton.edu\/~wn\/\">WordNet<\/a>. While I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogsci.princeton.edu\/~wn\/\">WordNet<\/a>&#8216;s a worthy project, it doesn&#8217;t quite compare to the Collins English Dictionary. <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, it was good to know you, WordReference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordReference used to have all the Collins dictionaries available online, for free browsing. I was the main dictionary computing guy at Collins when this deal was made, and it was pretty cool to have a good, non-US English dictionary on the web. I gues the money has run out, as the Collins data has disappeared, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1010,510],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-dictionary","tag-free"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}