Author: zhu hong liang Edition: 1
Update: 2008-05-30
Total words: 17859 Grade: 4
Mr. Schmit developed the Shakespeare lexicon in the later 19th century, which had been used for more than one hundred years. However, to this day, it still to be the greatest Shakespeare lexicon of all. Thence, it seemed to be very necessary to let the classical Shakespeare lexicon digitized, so that a common Shakespeare fan can easily read the classical drama by its assistance. When I am reading the drama such as a midsummer night's dream by Shakespeare, I usually fall into trouble that many words have strange meaning which are quite different from its modern meaning. The most serious things are that some words can't be searched even by the Oxford English dictionary. I think you will be same as me, undertaking the same arduous journey when you are reading an ancient drama by Shakespeare or others. Although the special dictionary like above "the Shakespeare lexicon" dictionary has been published, reading the dictionary to search a word is a physical sport. That is motivation why I developed this digital Shakespeare dictionary.
The "Spelling Suggestion" is a tool that suggests correct spelling for words that are not spelled correctly. Using sophisticated proximity and phonetic algorithms, coupled with the glossaries installed, it shows a list of terms most likely to be the one originally intended by the user. Although it is used primarily for identifying spelling mistakes, it will find similar terms in any glossary installed. As the algorithm employed is resource intensive, it will find similar terms only in local glossaries, and not in subscribed glossaries.
