Words, etc
For a change of pace, here are some things that are actually useful.
Here are some other possibilities.
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Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com
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Sidebar: The dictionary and
thesaurus links to the left have the interesting property that they can be
dragged to a browser's 'immediate links' bar and thus become operational
anytime the browser is displaying any page. Anagram generator. Visual Thesaurus is a very sophisticated mechanism for examining the meaning of a word by means of a connected display of related words. The Guided Tour, on the home page, is helpful. This site shows synonyms and related words, and antonyms, as a three-dimensional display. Click-and-drag the background to change the perspective, or to start a precession. Hover over circles for definitions. Click words or lines to re-focus. Lines and colors show the nature of the relationship. See the menus on the right of the window, and at the top. Phrase to word. |
| A.Word.A.Day | AWAD will
email you a new word each day. Eclectic selection of words has kept it
interesting for several years. Today's word: |
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| WritersWrite | So you want to write? | |
| Crossword Puzzle | Well done online puzzle. | |
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A constantly changing selection of words. (Click for a definition.) | |
| Behind the Name | The etymology and history of first names. | |
| Could monkeys type Shakespeare? | This is a simulator that is testing that theory. | |
| Etymology Dictionary | Etymology of words. | |
| Whichbook | This will help you find a book to your liking. You designate a set of preferences, on a scale, and search for books that meet those criteria. | |
| Quotations | Search by
author, subject, ... Or a quote daily by email. Or by RSS feed.
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| Bookmarklets | Explanation: Some sites provide a box for searching the site. But you have to navigate to the site first. With a bookmarklet, you start with search instead. You bookmark the search instead of the site. (Useful, for example, for doing a dictionary lookup.) | |
| Most Used Words | The 86,000 words most frequently used in the English language. |
Technical Dictionary. Emoticons [ :-)]. File types [.jpg]. Other stuff from the high-tech world.
| "Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean universe - which stands continuously open to our gaze, but which cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." - Galileo (1623) |
The Internet Public Library Just what you would expect of a library.
Apostrophes. Pesky to get right, so there is The Apostrophe Protection Society.
The King James Bible. (Searchable)
Grammar, verbs, idioms, you name it - English-Zone
"Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice."
Saw this on a CNET web page: "Ode to a Mushroom"
I love mushrooms. They
are so good. Yum. I like them
on things
like pizza
and stuff
like baked
potatoes Yum.
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Fri, Oct 26 8:21 AM EDT (From "Excite" news page) LONDON (Reuters) - Excuse me while I absquatulate, but I fear my tendency to divagate renders me a blatherskite, resulting in fleering. Huh? Before you consult a foreign-language dictionary, rest assured that this is plain, albeit seldom-used, English to say: "I must dash before my rambling makes you all laugh and jeer." If lexicographers at the new World Oxford Dictionary of English have their way, we will all be deipnosophists -- someone skilled in after-dinner chat -- once armed with their latest dictionary. |
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