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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
EN-EN dictionary, funny findings (looking up different words):
clicked on Kurds, the answer is:
Kurd,Kurd prop.n. A member of a people who inhabit a mountainous region of Western Asia, sometimes referred to as Kurdistan, spread over an area [...]
now Switzerland -> nothing.
Sudan -> Does not have this in the dictionary either, but it does give me options (since it was obviously misspelled ???) of (each I can click on an look the definition up): Sudamen, Sudamina, Sudarium, Sudary, Sudation, Sudatoria, Sudatories, Sudatorium, Sudatory (2x noun and adj.).
now the best thing so far:
Iraq -> does not exist, BUT it thinks Iraq and IRA have something in common:
1st IRA == individual retirement account
2nd IRA == The Irish Republican Army
Now, does that mean that once you quit the IRA, you go retire to Iraq for a 2nd chance terrorist home ????
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As I said in the previous post, the EN-EN dictionary is essentially the GCIDE, which is based on the freeware Webster 1913. Some country names and other "modern" terms might be missing. The Odyssey simply tries to return a list of words "similar" to the one being searched for.