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Author Topic: Tip of My Tongue  (Read 7885 times)

Mark0

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« Last Edit: September 05, 2008, 01:40 PM by mouser »

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Re: Tip of My Tongue
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2008, 05:35 PM »
very cool idea.

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Re: Tip of My Tongue
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2008, 05:40 PM »
Does all three textboxes need to have something? I can't seem to get a result when I type lang only in the end box in partial word.

Compare this to the result using wildcards in onelook.com

http://www.onelook.com/?w=*lang&ls=a

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Re: Tip of My Tongue
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2008, 05:52 PM »
I got 4 results in on the tip of my tongue and untold hundreds in one look, given that, i'd try tip of my tongue first, but then I'm lazy  :-[

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Re: Tip of My Tongue
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2008, 05:59 PM »
this happens to me all the time as i'm a regular non-wordsmith. i'm bookmarking this, thanks Mark0. :Thmbsup:

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Re: Tip of My Tongue
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2008, 08:15 AM »
I got 4 results in on the tip of my tongue and untold hundreds in one look, given that, i'd try tip of my tongue first, but then I'm lazy  :-[

I know. Same here that's why I couldn't be bothered using more than one service of these.  :P

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Re: Tip of My Tongue
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2008, 09:11 PM »
This tool is also really good for writers/ poets. I'm bookmarking it as well. Good Find. :up:

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Re: Tip of My Tongue
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2008, 02:47 PM »
Now that's an indigenous idea  :)

At least I think that's the word  ;)