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Below are some helpful resources for writing business or even personal correspondence. Making yourself understood avoids confusion. If you don't know the right word, or are not sure of the quote you are using or the reference you are making, take a minute and look it up. You'll save yourself some embarrassment.

Dictionaries

• Merriam Webster
  Merriam Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
• Dictionary.com
  Online dictionary with simple to use interface for looking up words. Also has foreign language dictionaries.

Thesauruses

• Roget's Thesaurus
• Merriam Webster

Quotations

• Bartleby.com

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia.com
  Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research.
• Encarta
  Search more than 4,500 articles on the world of knowledge--from aardvark to Zambia.
• Wikipedia
  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In this English version, started in 2001, we are currently working on 781,306 articles.

Translations

• Altavista's Babel Fish
  With AltaVista Babel Fish, you can translate passages of text or entire Web pages among nine languages, or quickly translate a web page into the language of your choice.

One last tip

Use the spelling functions on your word processing and email programs. It only takes a second to check your document or correspondence before it goes out the door. You'll be thankful you did.

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