Do you remember the post from a while ago called “How I Get Almost Any Question I Have Answered Using The Internet“?  Well, last night a quick question came up so I figured I give a working example of how I come across answers.

Well, there were actually two questions: “Is the idea that it is unhealthy to eat right before bed a misnomer?” and “Was ‘misnomer’ used correctly in that sentence?”  Here is what I did to answer those two questions.

1. Define: Misnomer – to do this, I headed over to Wiktionary.com
   • Enter “wiktionary” into address bar and hit Ctrl+Enter (a nice little short cut I learned from my friend George Carpenter):
     
   • Type “misnomer” into search box provided:
     
   • Wictionary.com gives the list of possible definitions and gives examples of each.  Then, as you can see, it gives “Usage notes” giving possible usages of the word (very handy for getting a feel of the many ways a word can be defined and used):
     
2. Research: Is it really unhealthy to eat right before bed?
   • I hit Yahoo.com up for this answer (I know, I know, Google is better!  I’m still using Yahoo for this example!):
     
   • I entered “eating befor bed” into the search field (I put the words in quotes so yahoo would search for occurrences of the phrase):
     
   • I then got a list of sites containing the phrase I was searching for.  The first link seems like it might have some answers:
     
   • As you can see from this screen shot, this site breaks the answer down for us:
     
     • Does the Timing of Meals Matter?
     • Timing of Meals and Weight
     • Other Health Effects
     • Eating at Night: a Real Disease?
     • The Bottom Line

There you have it, a quick example of how easy the internet makes it to find answers!  Please remember, when doing research, it is always good to find multiple sources of information to get more of a consesus of whether or not an answer is accurate.  For more tools for researching answers, revisit “How I Get Almost Any Question I Have Answered Using The Internet“!