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Having studied languages, linguistics and computing, Dom Glennon now works as a senior systems developer for Cambridge Dictionaries. Each month, he calculates and comments on the top 20 most clicked-on entries on Cambridge Dictionaries Online.

The big news this month is that advice, having held the top spot since May 2003, has finally been toppled. be up to something is the new no. 1 - people planning April Fool's jokes, perhaps?

Another idiom, be all in, is this month's highest, in fact only, new entry. Both are from the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, and it's nice to see people searching on some of the alternative dictionaries we offer.

1 be up to something (5) 11 appreciate (10)
2 be all in (-) 12 endeavour (9)
3 advice (1) 13 acquire (15)
4 liaise (2) 14 assess (11)
5 effect (3) 15 intend (18)
6 regard (6) 16 ubiquitous (12)
7 comply (4) 17 analyse (13)
8 paradigm (7) 18 emphasize (17)
9 commit (14) 19 affect (19)
10 idiom (8) 20 propose (16)

This list shows the 20 entries that were clicked on most frequently in March 2004. The figures in brackets show the word's position in last month's top 20.



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