WordWeb is a quick and powerful international English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to look up words from almost any program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. It includes pronunciations and usage examples, and has helpful spelling and sounds-like links.
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"Yavar Dehghani was born in Iran. After completing a Bachelor degree in speech pathology and an MA in linguistics, he taught at universities in Tehran and Tabriz while writing several books on speech disorders and related areas. He has also translated several books from English into Persian.
Yavar completed a PhD in linguistics in Melbourne, and has published his thesis, A Grammar of Azari Including Comparisons with Persians (published by Lincom Europa). He's currently lecturing at universities in Tehran."
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