14 years after digital debut, Macmillan Dictionary's website to be shut down
The Macmillan Education announced that it is now not sustainable enough to keep the Macmillan English Dictionary and Thesaurus up-to-date.
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The Macmillan Education announced that it is now not sustainable enough to keep the Macmillan English Dictionary and Thesaurus up-to-date.
According to the Macmillan Dictionary, a beach read is “a book you can take on holiday, which is good enough to keep you engaged, but not so serious it will spoil your holiday.” It seems the term first came into play around 1990, a marketing move by publishers to draw attention to their summer offerings. […]
POVERTY is loosely defined as a situation in which someone does not have enough money to pay for his/her basic needs (Macmillan Dictionary, 2023). Sociology-wise, poverty is the state of lacking the material and social resources an individual requires to live a long healthy life (SociologyDictionary.org). The incidence of poverty then depends on the metrics the authorities use to measure it.
Should we abolish the apostrophe?
“The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.” — Lin Yutang. Today’s column begins with a request: go back in time and find your memories of …