About the dictionary
Winfried Honig – known as “Mr. Honey” – began collecting word lists for business English as a lecturer in the 1970s and maintained them on the computer for decades. From 1997 he made them available to the online dictionary LEO, and from 2000 to DICDATA as well; through Project Gutenberg his dictionaries remain freely accessible to this day. Winfried Honig died in October 2018. More on the history of the dictionary →
This page makes both versions of his Large Business Dictionary – English-German and German-English – available through a fast search form. It is a showcase for AI-assisted software development – a demonstration piece, not a product, with no warranty and no support.
How the search works
- The search also finds parts of words and ignores upper/lower case, umlauts (“uber” finds “über”) and ß/ss.
- Exact matches come first, then matches at the beginning of a word, then all others.
- The data combines both versions of the Large Business Dictionary. “EN → DE” searches the English term, “DE → EN” the German term.
- “LEO ↗” next to a result looks the term up in the online dictionary LEO – with grammar, pronunciation, examples and forum. LEO opens in a new tab. The term is only sent to LEO when you click; the search on this page itself stays entirely in your browser.
- The / key puts the cursor in the search field. Every search can be shared as a link (e.g. …#q=liability).
Source and rights notice
Word lists from Mr Honey’s Large Business Dictionary in the English-German and German-English versions, © 2001, 2002 Winfried Honig, published via Project Gutenberg. The author permitted use of the word lists on condition that the links to LEO, DICDATA and Mr Honey are maintained. The entries have been taken over unchanged in content and have been neither modernised nor editorially corrected (e.g. old German spelling). Only some 30 entries whose columns had slipped when one of the versions was read in were put right using the other version; duplicate entries have been merged.
Links as required by the source notice: LEO · DICDATA · Mr Honey (historical link) · Project Gutenberg: Large EN–DE · Project Gutenberg: Large DE–EN