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ssmooth: What dictionary or dictionaries do you normally use?

Narlgoth: I don't, it's all me baby!
Limburger59: Google
pricero1: Chambers
donut2099: i like websters 1828
blipadouzi: Google
Woelf: Google, Urbandictionary.com, Dictionary.com (in that order)
Hendal: none
Felimid: The one inside my head. It ain't perfect, but it's better than nothin'.
1averagejoe: Google
ricardofo: English-Portuguese or Portuguese-English
Phil Fleischmann: American Heritage - the *best* dictionary, IMO. Online, usually dictionary.com.
ChillusMaximus: The built in one featured in Firefox
Spirit of 70: Webster's Unabridged or Dictionary.com
jcaraway: Webster and google
Kyle Smith: I have a pocket-sized unabridged dictionary
Abigail: Oxford dictionary
warpozio: Van Dale
pwilz: ispell.
i7dealer: dictionary.com
DHEK: Whatever dictionary is used by www.dictionary.com.
Eric Haas: American Heritage
arkibet: Webster and American Heritage
aleo09: none
scriptorum: Most frequently I use www.m-w.com, although I own a giganto one downstairs I never look at anymore, and a very good one on my PDA as well I use on occassion.
MisterCranky: Whichever one was most recently named as a source to refute a meaning I've implied.
dougpartridge: www.dict.org, www.m-w.com. Last time I looked at the OED, it seemed like you had to pay or something.
GrimJester: QED
Blacknightjj: i don't that is the problem.....but websters when i do.
vampywife: The American Heritage dic-tion-ar-y of The English Language, Fourth Edition
janiera: Websters
MaksimSmelchak: American Heritage is among the most useful. It's here on my desk right now.
Langoroth: The 3rd edtion of Websters New International Dictionary
XenoMaster: Webster's Online
Avatar_69: Oxford English and Collins Latin
Shotmagnet: Latin/English; The Superior Person's Book of Words
PsyJam: Webster's for books, dictionary.com for online.
puffinge: online Websters of late
Helenoftroy: Oxford
skrutsch: The first one I can find. Sometimes I just use dictionary.com.
matriculate: Dictionary.com
bigbadsteve: i am not really sure who makes it, to be honest
brainrob: OED
ZombyDawg: dictionary.com
melissa: The Concise Oxford. I know, I know, I should use the Macquarie Australian. mea culpa and all that.
confuse_a_cat: OSPD4, Merriam-Webster Collegiate, OED
shawn_low: Whichever is the closest.
SgtTodd: English
richdknows: webster.com
ssmooth: American Heritage is my first resort for words in English, though I'm always delighted to get a chance to consult and browse the OED. I also use the Oxford Duden German/English Minidictionary, the Bantam New College French & English Dictionary, and the Petit Larousse desk dictionary/encyclopedia frequently.
CortexBomb: I have an old monster one lying around somewhere that I use when I need one...it's at least 50 years old and I have no idea who printed it though
Dave: American Heritage, though I can deal with my wife's Webster's. I'm more picky about my thesaurus; I find my wife's Roget's impossible, but love my Random House.
jttm: Oxford.
skelebone: I have and American Hertiage one that I received from the state in high school, and I use m-w.com when online.
chaddyboy_2000: I usually just go to some online one.
heli: type "define " into google.com
CDRodeffer: Any more, usually www.dictionary.com is my only one.
sos1: OED
Lord_Prussian: Webster's New Collegiate and anything else that is laying around.