- Dictionaries:
- Synonyms, Thesaurus
- Etymology:
- Fowler's (2nd ed.)
- Acronyms
- Language:
- Obscure:
Writing, grammar, and such:
Style Guides - Publishing (mechanics, punctuation, citing)
- American Psychological Association (APA) style guide - psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work, criminology
:
- Associated Press (AP) style guide (book $) - U.S. magazines and newspapers
- Apostrophe,
Period
- Chicago Manual of Style: FAQ - historical and some social science
- Gustavas Style
& Punctuation
- Modern Language Association (MLA) style guide - liberal arts and humanities
- Punctuation - history of
Style Guides - Writing:
Semiotics & Symbols:
Myth, Religion, and Fable
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- Blogs, Forums, & Magazines:
- American Dialect Society
. Arts & Letters Daily
. Context
. Critique
. Double Tongued
. Fiction Bitch
. Glossblog
. Language Corner
. Languagehat
. Language Log
. Linguistic Society of America
. Serendipity
. Testy Copy Editors
(forum)
. The Valve
. Vocabula Review
. The Walrus
. Word exchange
. Writers Weekly
- Language Translators:
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All Free Dictionaries Project
. Babel Fish
. Google Language Tools
. GPL Trans
. Martindale's
. TravLang.com
. Web Verbix
. Wiktionary
. Word Reference
. World Lingo
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. French~
. IPA pronunciations
. Language tutorials
. US Language map
Jargon, Lingo, & Slang:
Trivia:
- Acronym finder
- Ancient Scripts
- Anguish Language
- Animal sounds from around the world
- Apostraphe Protection Society
- Apronyms
- Artificial v. Natural languages
- Autological words
- Banished words
- "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use or General Uselessness"
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Behind the Name - proper name info
- Bloopers (from students)
- Bushisms
- Chinese character tattoos
- Clichés,
Cliché finder
- Common words - in English, German, French, and Dutch
- Cut the Fluff
- Dialect Survey Maps
- Double-tongued
- E-prime
- English Idioms
- Economy BS generator
- Fun with Words
- History of the English Language
- Homonyms of the triplet variety
- How to Write Like a Philosopher
- Latin words, phrases, quotations
- Language Removal tool
- Logophilia
- Medical acronyms
- News: 100 Worst News Groaners,
Verbless news-speak,
News killing verbs
- Oddities & Trivia
- from the mellisonant to the repugnant
- 100 mispronounced words
- Overheard Conversations
- Oxymorons
- Nonverbal Dictionary
- Palindromes
- Phrase finder (UK)
- Proofreaders Hall of Shame
- Rhetoric
- Rhymes:
- Senate Glossary
- Self-referential essay
- Word Count - word popularity ranking
- Word Play
- a long list of word-related web sites (scroll down)
- Word Smith,
anagrams
- Words that are fun to say:
- World Wide Words - a British view of English
- Letters:
Foreign Languages for English Speakers:
Software Applications
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