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Broadback[_4_] · 12-02-2013, 12:38 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 12/02/2013 12:35, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:37:32 +0000 (GMT), wrote:

In article ,
Martin wrote:

I have downloaded some French books onto my Kobo, but I need to see
if I can hack it enough to make the dictionary feature useful. At
present, the word lookup tends to say things like "paysans: plural
of paysan", and looking up and/or translating words is FAR too
painful to use when reading.

I've found that the dictionary that is included with a Kindle
excellent. I was given the choice of English UK or English US, but no
foreign dictionaries.

The UK English dictionary that is on a Kindle is very good.

I scarcely need one of those! I would like to have the full OED
on my systems, but the idiots in charge won't sell it with an even
half-sane interface. And it's not much help with French!

Hence my comment about no foreign dictionaries on a Kindle.

A friend uses the American dictionary, he may be right as there are many
American words that I do not understand, however there a some English
ones as well, so I think I will stick with the English one.

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