- 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English
Includes several common errors that are the result of rapid speech, and advice to take your time speaking, correctly enunciating each word.
www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
- Antagonyms
Words that have opposite meanings (e.g., "bad" can mean bad or good depending on usage).
www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html
- Banished Words List
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Lake Superior State University presents annual lists of "Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use or General Uselessness." From the edgy to the totally unique.
www.lssu.edu/banished
- Brain Candy
Insults, riddles, jokes, humor, wordplay, and mind games.
www.corsinet.com/braincandy/index.html
- Confusing Words
Collection of 3,210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers, grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
www.confusingwords.com
- Conversational Terrorism
Humorous review of: ad hominem variants, sleight of mind fallacies, delay tactics, question as opportunity, verbal grenades, cheap shots, mental magic, and ploys.
www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html
- Dave's List Of Words That Are Fun To Say
Heebee jeebees, Zamboni, Lilliputian, chimichanga...
www.uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
- Discouraging Word, The
Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers.
www.thediscouragingword.com
- Double-Tongued Word Wrester
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Online dictionary of slang, jargon, and rare or unusual words from English-speaking areas around the world. Includes niche categories such as foreign, portmanteau, hybrid, archaic, and obsolete terms.
www.doubletongued.org
- Focusing on Words
Experience the wonder of words and the English language. Focuses on English words as presented by a variety of linguists and specialists in etymology.
www.wordfocus.com
- Forthright's Phrontistery
Offers a dictionary of obscure and rare words, the International House of Logorrhea, topical word lists, and other English language resources.
phrontistery.info
- Heteronyms
Words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently (e.g., wind or lead).
www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.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
- Luciferous Logolepsy
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Collection of over 9,000 obscure and archaic English words.
www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy
- Martha Barnette's Funwords
Offering linguistic fun featuring an archive and Wacky Word of the Week.
www.funwords.com
- Merriam-Webster's Word Central
Offers kids a student dictionary, Word of the Day, and interactive word games. Includes homework help and lesson plans for parents and teachers.
www.wordcentral.com
- My Favorite Word
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Everyone has a favorite word. What's yours? Submit your favorite word with a brief explanation of why it's your favorite or browse others' favorites.
www.myfavoriteword.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
- Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense
Daily real world advice and repartee from taxi1010.com.
www.taxi1010.com
- Prognosticate
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Supply key missing words for headlines taken from current news articles.
www.prognosticate.com
- 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
- Rude Place Names
Find out what happens when bored morons get hold of a geographical database.
www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html
- 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
- Says-It.com
Makers of word generator sites such as Church Sign, Vinyl Record, and Concert Ticket generators. Also includes photos of politicians with word bubbles that you can add text to, including George Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Dick Cheney.
www.says-it.com
- Web Directory: Word Play
Sites that feature fun with words.
www.wolinskyweb.net/word.htm
- Wikipedia: Double Entendre
Article on the meaning of double entendre and its entertaining history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre
- Word Detective, The
Online version of Words, Wit and Wisdom, a newspaper column that answers readers' questions about words and language.
www.word-detective.com
- Word Lab
Inverting the English language by providing word ideas from puns to buzzwords to slogans.
www.wordlab.com
- 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
- Wordcount
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Interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words.
www.wordcount.org
- WordCounter
Ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text.
www.wordcounter.com
- Wordie
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Dedicated to words, words, and more words. Like Flickr, but without the photos.
www.wordie.org
- Words and Stuff
Archive of weekly columns on words and wordplay by Jed Hartman.
www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html
- Words Ending in -gry@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Riddles/Words_Ending_in__gry
- Words of the Year
Selected annually by the American Dialect Society.
www.americandialect.org/woty.html
- Words, Words, and More Words
Essays, information, and links about words.
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/words
- Words: Woe and Wonder
Forum where you can comment on writing at the CBC
www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words
- World Wide Words
Investigates international English from a British perspective. Includes articles, newsworthy words, and usage notes.
www.worldwidewords.org
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