Lesson 5 - Oxford Reference Collection

1.  I went to the site and clicked on Browse This Subject then I punched the H button and looked for habeas corpus.  I found 6 dictionaries for this word.  Three of them were Oxford but had varying titles.  So I counted them as separate.

2.  I went back to the first page and clicked Links for This Subject.  There are lots of reasons for these links.  They include all sorts of stuff, not just words and their synonyms but english from different countries, news, rules for writing, culture, radio, etc.  I'm not sure what specific song about nouns that we're looking for but when I looked up nouns I came up with "Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens."

3.  When I tried to get the Visual English Dictionary the page went to Oxford Reference but you have to punch the Visual English Link again to get to the page you want.  There were 10 links but I picked the first example of boats and ships and it gave me the option of 14 types of ships.  I clicked on one of the them out of curiosity and it gave a good illustration of that particular kind of boat.

4.  I had a hard time finding the English Language Reference.  I finally found it on the home page.  Their were 18 different titles on the page.

5.  Under the bilingual page I picked latin-english.  And I punched in habeas corpus.  It didn't have the definition of habeas.  But corpus means body.  So I punched in another one, nil desperandum.  And it gave me the definition but also a list of words that could be similar if I didn't get the word right.  I even misspelled the word and it brought it up anyway.

6.  Awesome!  Under the quotations page you can put in a word and it will list a whole bunch of quotations that have that word in it.  Very nice!

 John Locke

[That] ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

(From Oxford Dictionary of Quotations in Quotations)

When I browsed the subject of abolish I got a list of the word and it's meaning and after that it was listed according to the author of the saying and then it listed other sayings that the author said.  This search has much more information and a much broader type of search than just the particular word search.  

7.  Under Maps and Illustrations I looked up Syria and it listed several maps.  I clicked on the first one of the three that they had.  The first one was the flag of Syria.  The second was a simple map that showed where it was in the middle east.  (I didn't even know we had a syria anywhere)  Anyway, the third link was another flag.  

8.  Under Encyclopedia I looked up Syria.  Under World Encyclopedia it just gave a very brief outline on the country and it's history.  It also had a couple of very small pictures.  The Guide to Countries of the World listed a different type of information about Syria.  It mentioned its export, population, etc. and it had a larger picture and also showed the countries that are situated around it.  It also had a link to further information for tourists.  Actually I think this particular source is more for tourists or someone who was looking up statistics or something.  

9.  Under Recycling search, I saw 25 different results.  I'm a little confused on the "three books" we're supposed to find.  On the left of the screen there is a list of 11 types of links under "Refine by Subject" and several hits for each of these.  Forty hits in all.  

10.  I'm not sure if I can do it because I don't know anything about web design but I'll give it a go.