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yourDictionary.com Announces Relocation of Corporate Headquarters to Danville, CA

June 26, 2000, DANVILLE, CA, - yourDictionary.com (YDC), the most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the worldwide web today announced it was re-locating its corporate offices from suburban Philadelphia to Danville, CA, according to Paul J.J. Payack, President and Chief Executive Officer.

yourDictionary.com (YDC) was founded in 1999 to provide the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web.

"We are pleased to relocate to the Bay Area in general, and the I-680 Technology Corridor specifically," said Payack. "The intellectual and technical resources of the Bay Area are unparalleled."

YourDictionary.com currently encompasses the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages). YDC's authority and academic rigor is best exemplified by the Advisory Council of Experts (ACE), comprised of some of the world's most distinguished linguists, who provide indispensable guidance in the development, acquisition, and maintenance of the dictionaries under their purview. YDC's Endangered Language Initiative (ELI) provides a sanctuary to help preserve the hundreds of languages that are threatened with extinction and the distinct heritage each represents.

yourDictionary.com has been recognized as the web's pre-eminent language portal by dozens of organizations around the world. Most recently, yourDictionary.com was selected as the "Best of the Web for Reference" by Forbes magazine. Other recent accolades have come from The New Yorker, the BBC, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Yahoo Internet Life, among many others.

YourDictionary.com's corporate headquarters are located at 434 Market Street, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837.

yourDictionary.com has been recognized as the web's pre-eminent language portal by dozens of organizations around the world. Most recently, yourDictionary.com was selected as the "Best of the Web for Reference" by Forbes magazine. Other recent accolades have come from The New Yorker, the BBC, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Yahoo Internet Life, among many others.

The Advisory Council of Experts
The yourDictionary.com Advisory Council of Experts (ACE) is comprised of some two dozen of the most renowned figures in the field. The distinguished members of the Council help ensure the integrity of their respective areas of linguistic specialization, as well as provide indispensable guidance in the development, acquisition, and maintenance of the dictionaries under their purview. Members of the Council also contribute original articles to the YDC Library.

Preserving the World's Linguistic Heritage
Of the seven thousand languages and dialects spoken on the planet, experts have concluded that more than half are endangered and actually headed toward extinction by the end of the century. To help preserve the languages and the distinct heritage each represents, yourDictionary.com has created the Endangered Language Initiative (ELI). The purpose of the ELI is to provide a sanctuary for these languages on the worldwide web, to better enable access by both scholars and interested laypersons.