Words and Wordplay
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World Wide Words
World Wide Words. More than 1000 pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English. New words and words in the news regularly featured.
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The Word Detective
Words and Language in a Humorous Vein Since 1995 The Word Detective on the Web is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. The Word Detective is written by Evan Morris and appears in finer newspapers in the U.S., Mexico and Japan. It's here at last! A hardback collection of The Word Detective columns. Here's a delightful ...
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Word Play
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. -- Eddie Cantor My husband and I have written a book! Healthcare Online For Dummies The book is a guide to the wealth of information on healthcare available online. You can use it to help you find out about doctors, hospitals, diseases, medications, alternative care and more. The book ...
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Chiasmus.com
Chiasmus and chiastic quotations. Dedicated to making chiasmus a household word.
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Banished Words List: Lake Superior State University
Banished Words 2002 Compiled Lists History of Banishment Unicorn Hunters Media Coverage Message Board Submit a Word For Banishment Lake Superior State University Issues List of Banished Words 2002 SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - Every New Year s Day since 1976 the University has issued an annual List of Words Banished from the Queen s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use or General Uselessness compiled from ...
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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia Page 1 - Miscellany Page 2 - Miscellany Page 3 - Miscellany Page 4 - Miscellany Page 5 - Palindromes Page 6 - Vowels Page 7 - Uncommon double letters; triple letters; quadruple letters Page 8 - Typewriter words; consecutive consonants Page 9 - Misspelled words; pangrams Page 10 - Beautiful words; most frequent appearance of each letter Page 11 - Long ...
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WordLab - Inverting the English Language
WordLab - The premier Internet resource for free, open-source naming, branding and identity content WordLab is the premier Internet resource for free, open-source naming, branding and identity content. Offering tens of thousands of its own name and slogan creations in its massive online database, WordLab also features a vibrant, open-source brand identity community on its WordBoard forum. New ...
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Logophilia Weekly
Last change: 17 November, 2000 .) Welcome to Words & Stuff, a fortnightly column on words and wordplay. If you're new here, you may want to read the Introduction. A new column is theoretically posted every other week. In practice, there've been very few new columns in the past couple of months. UUU. I've Just Seen a Face (10/22/00, very belatedly) All previous columns are still available, along ...
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Welcome to the Word Police Academy
Join a conversation on Word Police and Word Court in Atlantic Unbound's reader forum, Post & Riposte. Read recent Word Court columns from The Atlantic Monthly, and browse the Word Fugitives archive, in The Court Record. Previous Word Police Exam: Meaning Detectives (A-M) (June 7, 2000) Go to the Word Police exam index. June 21, 2000 Current entrance exam: Meaning Detectives (N-Z) The Word Police ...
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The Southern Word Homepage
The Southern Word Homepage: A to D Other NetSquirrel Pages NetSquirrel.com Homepage -- ADV-HTML Archives -- Classroom Resources -- Contact Information -- Internet Tourbus -- RHA Online -- Roadmap Workshop -- Southern Word Homepage -- Squirrel Hunt -- Urban Legend Combat Kit Crispen's Personal Pages -- Crispen's Bookmarks -- Crispen's Cookie Recipe -- Crispen's Pepperdine Pages -- Crispen's ...
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The Heteronym Homepage
Welcome to the Heteronym Homepage! This homepage is about heteronyms, a type of word. See what it's all about! You are visitor number Page revised on 1/1/99 Page created on 6/1/96 What are heteronyms Heteronyms are words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently. For example: Lead, pronounced LEED, means to guide. However, lead, pronounced LED, means a ...
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Antagonyms
Antagonyms Page revised on January 1, 1999 This is a word I made up to describe a single word that has meanings that contradict each other. My derivation of the word antagonyms is described below. Example of an Antagonym: A current example would be BAD . There is the normal meaning and the slang meaning of good (sometimes pronounced baad for emphasis). Although I prefer words in which the ...
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How NOT to Talk!
An expose of Conversational Cheap Shot Tactics to notice and avoid. HOW NOT TO TALK! Read 'em and laugh - or weep if you must.
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WordCounter
Wordcounter words count counting most frequent common find keywords summarize ...
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Word Safari: vocabulary expeditions
Expand your vocabulary with this fun WWW exploration game, build word skills while surfing the Internet, a playful approach to vocabulary learning ...
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Fun With Words
A Celebration of the English Language We use it every day, but we never learn all there is to know about it, nor do we ever finish mining all the pleasure that can be had with it. The English language is fraught with fun. What's the longest English word whose letters are arranged in alphabetical order What words are their own antonyms What word means to cause a frog or toad to fly up in the ...
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Words, Words, and More Words - Suite101.com
Written words, spoken words, word games, old words, trendy words, debating words, negotiating words - we use words to communicate, connect, convince, change minds, entertain, to play, to work and more. Explore the world of words on the Internet. - dewey decimal 428.1 ...
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Grammar Over Profits!
Put Grammar Over Profits! What's Wrong With This Picture This sign should read, 10 Items orFewer Chances are, you never even noticed this grammatical error that shows up in supermarkets and other large shopping centers across the country. As grammar becomes less and less important in schools, many businesses feel they can skimp on this important aspect of American life. With so few role models ...
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