Poll: How many dictionaries do you use on a regular basis?
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Yaotl Altan
 
Agneta Pallinder
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United Kingdom
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None or lots Jun 25, 2018

None - if you mean printed dictionaries.

Lots of different specialist or generalist online ones.


Amir Arzani
Mario Freitas
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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English to Portuguese
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2-5 Jun 25, 2018

It depends on what is meant by regular: sometimes weeks go by without me touching any of them. My Phrasal Verbs Dictionaries (PT-PT) are probably the ones I use most. As EU-related texts are the bulk of my work, my regular ports of call are Eur-Lex, IATE and the Interinstitutional Style Guide.

 
Debora d'Amato (X)
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Italy
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Minimum 2 Jun 25, 2018

If you mean online dictionaries, even 3/4, that I guess it's not a high number.
Anyway, I have a favourite one, the one I consider the best for my translations but you never know, I mean, better consulting to one more than referring to only one.


 
Christine Andersen
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Quite a lot Jun 25, 2018

I have an online pack with at least five, and another handful in another pack as a backup.

Then I have a whole bookcase full of dictionaries etc. with one shelf of works I consult frequently, if not what you call regularly. It depends on the subject area.

Style guides, background reference, lists of abbreviations and acronyms, handbooks for context - I don't know if they count, but I spend a lot of time looking up what I need to know.

Much of it is online,
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I have an online pack with at least five, and another handful in another pack as a backup.

Then I have a whole bookcase full of dictionaries etc. with one shelf of works I consult frequently, if not what you call regularly. It depends on the subject area.

Style guides, background reference, lists of abbreviations and acronyms, handbooks for context - I don't know if they count, but I spend a lot of time looking up what I need to know.

Much of it is online, but the printed sources are sometimes just as quick, because I know precisely where to look, and they are RELIABLE!
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Julita Hille
 
Mario Freitas
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Brazil
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English to Portuguese
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Zero to several Jun 25, 2018

Paper dictionaries: Zero
Online dictionaries: quite a few


 
Yaotl Altan
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Mexico
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English to Spanish
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2-5 Jun 25, 2018

1.- Diccionario Politécnico de las Lenguas Española e Inglesa, F. Beigbeder Atienza, Díaz de Santos.
2.- Dictionnaire technique, H. Mink, Herder
3.- Diccionario crítico de dudas inglés-español de medicina, Fernando Navarro,
4.- Technisches Fachwörterbuch, H. Mink, Herder, Mc-Graw-Hill
5.- The Macmillan Visual dictionary: multilingual edition, Jean-Claude Corbell and Ariane Archambault, Éditions Québec.

Paper dictionaries all of them.

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1.- Diccionario Politécnico de las Lenguas Española e Inglesa, F. Beigbeder Atienza, Díaz de Santos.
2.- Dictionnaire technique, H. Mink, Herder
3.- Diccionario crítico de dudas inglés-español de medicina, Fernando Navarro,
4.- Technisches Fachwörterbuch, H. Mink, Herder, Mc-Graw-Hill
5.- The Macmillan Visual dictionary: multilingual edition, Jean-Claude Corbell and Ariane Archambault, Éditions Québec.

Paper dictionaries all of them.

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James Hodges
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Japan
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Japanese to English
Dictionary Usage? Jun 26, 2018

I used to use lots many years ago. These days, however, the majority of my work is repetitious. Different projects, the same terminology. As such, I tend to spend more time crafting my prose than searching out new terms. That being said, I still love thumbing through dictionaries in my spare time.

 
Muriel Vasconcellos
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United States
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At least 10 Jun 26, 2018

My office is lined with shelves of reference books. The ones I have kept are typically better than what I can find online, though I use online dictionaries as well.

 


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