Peter Terrell

Shit, Collins English-German dictionary, what happened to you? I got you because I thought you were good last time I was in Austria, and also you were light, and then I needed you all of five times (meine Deutsch wird ja besser!) and you were one for five only. They need a dictionary that doesn't bother with all the easy words that anyone actually having achieved the level of skill in a language necessary to allow them to communicate and require a dictionary in the first place, and just show more skips to the good stuff. show less

This is the absolute best German-English dictionary on the market. I haved used it for years for translating (professionally and for my own academic work), and it rarely leaves me in the lurch. It is truly the "expert's dictionary." It's probably too much for beginning language speakers, but for anyone who lives abroad, translates, or uses German at an advanced academic level, it is absolutely indispensible.

Oh, yes, it also has a translation for "lemon meringue pie."

Best language dictionary ever, largely because of the twisted sense of humor which shows through in the usage examples.

Bigger than my last German-English dictionary, yet with a lower lookup-success rate. Es geht in die Bude! Or more accurately, in die Mülltonne, since it fell apart yesterday. Gonna go dictionary shopping!