An Insight into the Culture of Britain and America

An up-to-date guide to British and American culture that gives you an insight into what's important in both countries today, what's popular, and what people feel strongly about. It's written for learners of English, in language that's easy to understand. 10,000 entries, including special entries with extra vocabulary on topics such as advertising, football and soap operas all help you learn much more about both cultures.

Up-to-date Help in Your Travels and Studies

• Discover the facts and figures about Britain and America in the 21st century
• Explore the rich, the famous and infamous, history, legends, festivals, music, food, shopping and attitudes
• Look up famous quotations and find out who said what
• Get ideas of what to read - choose from lists of books that won the Booker, Pulitzer and other prizes plus suggestions for further reading

The MSDict Dictionary Format

The Oxford Guide to British and American Culture is here presented in MSDict electronic format. MSDict offers best experience in mobile reference and is available for any handheld platform.

• Quick dynamic search of words while you type
• Transcriptions facilitating pronunciation
• Hyperlinks between different related words
• Dynamic changing of font sizes
• Learning features
• Support of multiple dictionaries installed at a time
• Support for MMC, memory stick, and SD memory cards

MSDict 4 Out Now!What is New?

• Fullscreen support
• Page scrolling mode added
• Handy custom filteres added to help you locate the word you are searching for:
  • Fussy filter- used when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a word
  • Keyword- used to locate the instances of a key word within other compound words
  • Wild card - "?" and "*" replace a letter and group of letters in words
• Ability to select and change the language for MSDict menus and messages. The supported languages are- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Finish, Russian and Portuguese.
• Copy single words, selected paragraphs or whole word definitions in external programs on your phone
• Two different work modes- View and Selection for your convenience when browsing word definition