I quickly type up the word I want to look up. I click “Dictionary”, as I must have done at least 500 times in the past. before it showed you the actual search box. It’s as if the Google homepage showed you a menu with options like “Search”, “Mail”, “Maps”, etc. LDOCE has another hurdle for me to jump over: a pointless menu for choosing between the actual dictionary and a host of other marginally useful modules like Activator, Grammar or Exercises. The damn thing launches about as fast as Adobe Photoshop and sounds like a disk benchmark while doing it.īut once the wait is over, I get to look up my word, right? Well, not exactly. LDOCE takes so long to launch that by the time it has finished loading the hundreds of pointless megabytes from my hard drive, I can change the track in iTunes, check my mail, and have a good look at the front page of Reddit. It may be only slightly better than the rest, but I don’t like to compromise on quality.Īnd boy, do I pay the price for my perfectionism. Unfortunately, most of the time the answer is yes, because LDOCE really has the best content of all learner’s dictionaries. That’s the thought that goes through my mind whenever I have to launch LDOCE to look up a word.
And you know what? I can’t stand the pain anymore. Since I wrote my enormous comparison of English dictionaries for learners, I’ve been using the LDOCE ( Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English) for Windows as my main dictionary.
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