- Martha Barnette's Funwords
Offering linguistic fun featuring an archive and Wacky Word of the Week.
www.funwords.com
- Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions
Discover the true meaning of words and phrases such as scuttlebutt, cut of his jib, and no room to swing a cat.
www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
- Wordie
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Dedicated to words, words, and more words. Like Flickr, but without the photos.
www.wordie.org
- Words of the Year
Selected annually by the American Dialect Society.
www.americandialect.org/woty.html
- Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense
Daily real world advice and repartee from taxi1010.com.
www.taxi1010.com
- Rude Place Names
Find out what happens when bored morons get hold of a geographical database.
www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html
- Words, Words, and More Words
Essays, information, and links about words.
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/words
- Words and Stuff
Archive of weekly columns on words and wordplay by Jed Hartman.
www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html
- Institution of Silly & Meaningless Sayings (ISMS)
The world's foremost authority on malapropisms, mixed metaphors, spoonerisms, attempts at using foreign phrases, but mostly just downright nonsense that sounds correct (if said with conviction).
www.isms.org.uk
- Discouraging Word, The
Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers.
www.thediscouragingword.com
- Words Ending in -gry@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Riddles/Words_Ending_in__gry
- Dave's List Of Words That Are Fun To Say
Heebee jeebees, Zamboni, Lilliputian, chimichanga...
www.uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
- Luciferous Logolepsy
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Collection of over 9,000 obscure and archaic English words.
www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy
- Brain Candy
Insults, riddles, jokes, humor, wordplay, and mind games.
www.corsinet.com/braincandy/index.html
- Rinkworks.com: Fun With Words
Celebration of the English language including contronyms, autograms, unusual word forms, and commonly misspelled and confused words.
www.rinkworks.com/words
- Word Police
Find out if you have what it takes to issue grammar citations by taking the entrance exam.
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/wordpolice
- Word Safari: Vocabulary Expeditions
Playful approach to sharpening English vocabulary used in academic reading and writing; makes web surfing an opportunity to experience words in context.
home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/index.htm
- Words: Woe and Wonder
Forum where you can comment on writing at the CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words
- Save The Words
An initiative that aims to save words, that are no longer used, by asking individuals to adopt a word and use it in conversation and correspondence.
www.savethewords.org
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