A database of more than 200,000 acronyms and their meanings. Contains acronyms about: general topics, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and the military including Department of Defense, Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard acronyms. http://www.AcronymFinder.com/
Words, like "caret" and "carrot" that
are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that
have different meanings. This list was compiled with a true
appreciation for "the prime numbers of the English language.
"
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html
You provide either plain text or the address (URL) of a Web
page to translate from English into French, Spanish, Portuguese,
German or Italian or vice versa. For real fun, try translating
something into a second language and then back again into the
original language.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
A mnemonic is a device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as
an aid in remembering. Amanda collects them and has organized
them into handy categories. To spell arithmetic correctly
remember "A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream."
http://www.frii.com/~geomanda/mnemonics.html
Expressions of our American ancestors. This page is a
collection of phrases that have been passed down through the
generations in contributor's families.
Contribute your own or read through the categories. The site
also features "Ye Olde English Sayings."
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/amerispeak.htm
Ambigrams are a word or words that can be read in more than
one way or from more than a single vantage point, such as both
right side up and upside down.
http://Ambigram.Com/
Did you know that rearranging the letters of "Ronald
Wilson Reagan" gives "A long-insane Warlord",
"Madonna Louise Ciccone" gives "Occasional nude
income" and "William Shakespeare," "I am a
weakish speller"??! With The Anagram Genius you can find
out what lurks within the letters of YOUR name, or that of your
boss, employer or anything else that you choose." You
supply the name or phrase, tone, gender, context, use (or not)
of vulgar words, and number of requested responses. Submit
this information with your email address and your anagrams
arrive promptly in your inbox. Awesome!
http://www.anagramgenius.com/server.html
Here you'll find a list of the best and the brightest
anagrams of all time, such as "The Morse Code = Here Come
Dots," "Slot Machines = Cash Lost in'em" and
"Dormitory = Dirty Room."
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html
An antagonym (a term the author coined) is single word that
has meanings that contradict each other. For example: Cleave,
which means to adhere tightly and also to cut apart. Antagonyms
are also known as "contronyms."
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html
Enter your English text and press "Borkify" and it
is instantly translated into Mock Swedish (as spoken by the
Muppet's Swedish Chef). As they say in Mock Swedish, "
Cuul."
http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~dursi/borker.html
This glossary was compiled because the author became
frustrated while reading magazine articles, help wanted ads and
equipment for sale brochures....all pertaining to computers....
where the listed Abbreviations and Acronyms were used and their
meanings were either not known or were not immediately
available.
http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html
Cliches for those troubled moments, neatly arranged by
category. Includes cliches for: when life is hard, when you are
afraid, when you think you are ugly, when you are looking for
something and you don't know for what and many more.
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/cliche.htm
Give your mind a work out with devious collection of puzzles. There are hundreds, ranging from
word games to logic problems to riddles. Some are tricky. Some
require innovation. All require thinking power. Good luck.
http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/
This amazing program will take an English name, phrase, and
so on, and rearrange the letters to form other English words.
Submitting "word play" yielded 48 anagrams, including
"yap world," "pal rowdy," and "wary
plod." http://mmm.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/anagrams.html
This program finds the letter equivalents of a phone number.
For example, "439-2665" is equivalent to dialing
"HEY-COOL." Most of the results you generate will
probably be meaningless, but there might be a couple or so that
are real or semi-real phrases. http://mmm.mbhs.edu/
~bconnell/phoneagrams.html
Here you will find some background on the "never end a
sentence with a preposition" rule as well as lists of words
that violate the "i before e" rule.
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/broken.rules.html
Where "WWW" means Wretched Writers Welcome.
Sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State University
since 1982, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a whimsical
literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the
opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
This is an archive, arranged by year, of the Burma Shave
signs that used to appear alongside the highway. Pause between
each line you read and imagine yourself rumbling down an old
two-lane road, top down on the Chevy convertible, watching
America roll by.
http://www.nidlink.com/~dgookin/burma_shave/index.html
A collection of real people whose names strongly suggest
their occupation or pastime, e.g. the hairdresser Sonia Shears
and hockey coach Jim Playfair.
http://www.accesscable.net/~chapmand/aptonyms/
I've loved Odgen Nash's poetry since I was a child. This
site boasts it is the largest and most popular online collection
of poetry by Ogden Nash. And it's searchable.
http://www.westegg.com/nash/
Finally, the remedy for that tip-of-the-tongue feeling. You
type in a definition, and Casey's dictionary will tell you which
word you are trying to think of. If you aren't sure what to type,
try a definition example: a word that is spelled the same
backwards as it is forwards Or, to ask the Guru, try: What is
the meaning of life?
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/revdict/
Chiasmus is when you reverse the order of words in two
otherwise parallel phrases. Like Mae West's famous line, "It's
not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.
http://www.chiasmus.com/
Not only does Christine know how to have fun with words,
she's funny, clever, hip and sings like an angel. (And she
twirls a mean baton!) Now featuring her new album "Shining
My Flashlight On The Moon," which has many wonderful new
songs including "Planet X." This cut, Christine's
tribute to the planet Pluto, features a sung URL for
Pluto's homepage.
http://www.christinelavin.com/
Have you been searching for just the right cliche; to use?
Are you searching for a cliche using the word "cat" or
"day" but haven't been able to come up with one? Enter
any words in the textbox and the search engine will return any
clichés which use that phrase. Over 3,300 cliches
indexed!
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
A collection of word facts which includes such oddities as
"BEIJING has three dotted letters in a row (in lower case),
" and "OCEANIA crams five syllables into only seven
letters."
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
A collection of statements that make you ask the musical
question "huh?" My favorite: "There are only
three kinds of people; people who can count and people who
can't."
http://www.auburn.edu/~piperak/complex.html
Like the name says,
this site generates country western songs. When I went there
the song included the lyrics: "I met her in Sheboygan at
McDonald's; I can still recall that creepy smile she wore;
She was weighted down with Twinkies when she shot me,
and I knew no guy would ever love her more..." It doesn't
get much better than that!
http://www.outofservice.com/country/
Richard Lederer's wonderful essay in which he reminds us,
"Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no
egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in
pineapple..."
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/crazy.html
Read brief original stories or excerpts from classic
literature with your words strategically inserted to produce
whacky results.
http://www.rinkworks.com/crazylibs/
Combine one word from each of three columns, preface with
"Thou and thus shalt thou have the perfect insult.
Let thyself go -- mix and match to find a barb worthy of the
Bard.
ftp://ftp.cirr.com/pub/SCRIBE/Stage/Toinsult.Txt
Select the length of the answer you're looking for, supply
the letters you do know, click on the "What is it?"
button, and get your answer.
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/crossword.html
Crypto Cracker is a tool for cracking word ciphers, also
known as cryptograms or cryptoquotes, a puzzle where one letter
in the puzzle is substituted with another. Will also encrypt a
phrase.
http://www.wordplays.com/crypto.html
Remember the "Darmok" episode from the fifth
season of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Of course you do.
It's the one in which the Enterprise encounters an alien race,
the Children of Tama, whose language has so far eluded human
comprehension. Here's a site, complete with sound bites,
devoted to understanding the language.
http://www.chaparraltree.com/sflang/darmok.shtmll
An archive of lyrics to wacky songs by such artists as
"Weird Al" Yankovic, Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman, and
Stan Freberg. There are even a few Monty Python songs at this
site. You can look for a song by artist and by title.
http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/lyrics.html
This dictionary has over 13,900 "difficult" words.
Learn them all and so you can avoid being verbigerative and be
succinct.
http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/
This dictionary had its origins in a message posted to the
rec.bicycles.off-road newsgroup that said, in part: "
Offroading needs more lore. More culture. More vernacular.
[...] Let us use the 'net for something really valuable --
let's compile a list of bikey slang. Biff, face plant, gravity
check, endo; those are pretty good terms, but let's get some of
the really clever ones." This is the result.
http://world.std.com/~jimf/biking/slang.html
Translate whole web pages or passages of text into the
following comic dialects: Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd,
Swedish Chef, Moron, or Pig Latin.
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
Tests designed to increase your vocabulary through
interactive quizzes with definitions and etymologies.
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/tomdillon/index.html
Fill in the blanks using number-coded word lists and you'll
be singing in no time!
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~hartwel1/humor/misc/
do_it_yourself_cw.html
Collection of real doctor names that are funny, weird, and
strangely appropriate. For instance, Dr. Aikenhead, the
allergist.
http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/mla/doctor.htm
Just like the Madlibs you did as a kid. Read the bLibs that
others have come up with or supply your own nouns, verbs,
adjectives, etc. to create wacky stories.
http://www.elibs.com/
"A Mis-users Guide and Litter-It-Tour of computer
language for the rest of us. The main purpose of this site is
to demystify and unlock the complex, strange sounding, mystical
language of computerspeak."
http://home.earthlink.net/~emttrashtalk/
"This 1883 book is without question the worst phrasebook ever written. The writer, Pedro Carolino, who was Portuguese, did
not particularly speak English, nor did he have a Portuguese-English dictionary available. Instead, he worked with a
French-English phrasebook and a Portuguese-French dictionary. The results, I'm sure you'll agree, are staggering. "
http://www.fragment.com/~ganz/spoke.html
"Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language... until
they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, these verses were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself. "
http://www.milk.com/random-humor/english_poem.html
Actual signs in English seen 'round the world. A sampling: "Belgrade Hotel Elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk." and
"Athens Hotel:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 a.m. daily."
http://www.littlejason.com/funnytext/foreigns.html
A word game where you swap letter pairs in scrambled well-known or humorous quotations until the original message is restored. Great fun! http://wordzap.com/enigma/
Enter the text you wish translated in the box and click the translate button. It'sway asway easyway asway atthay! http://www.snowcrest.net/donnelly/piglatin.html
An eponym is a word derived from someone's name. For example, bloomers are named after Amelia Bloomer. This site
presents the author's personal collection of eponyms, collected from books, webpages, teacher worksheets, and brainstorming on his
own or with literate friends.
http://members.tripod.com/~foxdreamer/index.html
Calling itself the "toughest word game on the web," in this game you're presented with 10 randomly selected word origin or word definition puzzles to solve.
http://www.intuitive.com/cgi-local/etymologic.cgi
If you enjoy such ditties as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," The Element Song," and "Oedipus Rex" (as I do!), you'll be thrilled to find the lyrics to this album (remember vinyl?) and to other Lehrer masterpieces at this site.
http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/LYRICS/lehrer.wasted
Select the language that you speak, then select the language that you want to learn and up will pop seven categories of travel-related words to learn plus additional information and links to help you on your way.
http://www.travlang.com/languages/
Free automatic computer translation in 8 language directions. Translate FROM English to French, German, Spanish, Italian, Norweigian, and Portuguese and translate TO English from French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. http://www.freetranslation.com/
"If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono" and other such "related" nonsense! http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3456/h_marriage.html
You've "seen" them. Maybe on a sign at the "grocery" store, maybe in an ad in your "local" newspaper. They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places. Cleverly laid out as a museum, this site features a permanment collection, current exhibits and a donation rotunda. Wander through the "rooms" and marvel at this collection of misused quotation marks. http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/
Gourmet World presents links to more than twenty specialized glossaries for cooking terms. Included are glossaries for cheesemaking, sushi, Italian cooking, wine tasting, and spices, herbs and seasonings. http://www.gourmetworld.com/library/gw000645.htm
Interactive game where you have to figure out the letters in a word before the stick figure swings.
http://www.allmixedup.com/cgi-bin/hangman/hangman?atthtkl|0||
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 metallic element.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.html
Homographs are words that have identical spellings but different pronunciations and different meanings.
http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/wordlist/homogrph.html
Create magnificent names for all kinds of horses - equestrian, trotting, galloping by just pushing the button.
http://home.c2i.net/bjarteas/english.html
This page will lead you on a guided tour in steps to show you how you can put together your own name glyph, and finishes with an example. http://www.halfmoon.org/names.html
"The biggest, best investing glossary on the Web" with over 5,000 investing terms and 15,000 links between related words.
http://www.investorwords.com/
An attractive page in which the author shares with us a few of her favorite obscure words including: Hapax Legomenon, Logomachy and Clavus. http://www.psnw.com/~grammaj/words.html
Wondering how to say "hello" in Danish or "thank you" in Kurdish? Jennifer has a great collection of how to say common words and phrases in different languages with an extensive list of links to similar pages.
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/
John's busy making four new puzzles a month for you to print out and solve. Me, I'm working on the one about chocolate ('natch!).
http://www.thepotters.com/puzzles.html
You enter scrambled letters and it returns the unscrambled word. It also lets you enter words with letters missing and it tells you all the words that fit the pattern.
http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/jumble.html
Dedicated to the goal of promoting, fostering and developing the Klingon language, the KLI offers this site from which you can both hear Klingon and see the writing system (which the Klingons call <pIqaD>). You can also learn about the KLI's ambitious projects, such as translating the Bible and the works of Shakespeare into Klingon. The KLI publishes a peer reviewed quarterly journal, HolQeD, and the world's first Klingon literary magazine, <jatmey> or "Scattered Tongues."
http://www.kli.org/
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut is a version of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" written in 1940 by H.L
Chace, a French professor, to show his students how integral intonation is to the meaning of
language. For the full effect, read this aloud. http://www.exploratorium.edu/xref/exhibits/ladle_rat_rotten_hut.html
At the Linguistic Olympics secondary students compete by solving puzzles in languages they have never learned. This site contains 26 sample puzzles from the last three US Linguistic Olympics competitions.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/
This is a list of some of the lesser-known linguistic phenomena and devices used in English
writing. You actually know what most of these are, you just didn't know what they were called.
http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kbarker/ling-devices.html
An assortment of words, variations, or names that first appeared in books, plays, poems, comic strips and mythology.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2297/literary.html
Named after the character Miss Malaprop in Sheridan's comedy The Rivals, a malapropism is any well-intended saying that takes
on a different and often ludicrous meaning when a similar yet utterly inappropriate word is used. To wit: "He is the very pineapple of politeness."
http://www.nidlink.com/~dgookin/malaprop.htm
Find out what it means when Dr. Benton says "Get me a thoracotomy tray, stat!" or when Dr. Green orders a "CBC, Chem-7, lytes"
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/5196/index.html
Every month the Comenius Group provides a new idiom to assist students of English. They provide a definition as well as audio files of the idiom itself and the idiom used in context. In other words, they bend over backward to help.
http://www.comenius.com/idioms/
Collection of nautical expressions found in the works of author Patrick O'Brian, some with explanations showing the connection between a familiar phrase in everyday language to its marine heritage.
http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/words.words.words.html
Still under construction, this site plans to define Internet terms in fourteen different languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Maori, Croatian and Dutch. Begin with a language you're comfortable with, find the term you want to define and then follow the links to see the term and its definition in the other languages.
http://wwli.com/translation/netglos/netglos.html
William Safire's illustrative hints of what not do when writing. Example: "Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read." http://www.mapping.com/never2.html
A collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Though some technical material is included for background and flavor, it is not a technical dictionary. What is described here is the language hackers use among themselves for fun, social communication, and technical debate.
http://www.jargon.8hz.com/jargon_toc.html
Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, History and Use, taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice University.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/index.html
The Oxford English Dictionary presents a word a day complete with pronunciation, spellings, etymology, quotations and date chart.
http://oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
An ode on the perils of computer spell-checkers by Marylaine Block. This is one in a series of her delightful columns, called "My Word's Worth," all of which are worth checking out.
http://www.qconline.com/myword/perfectc.html
Tools to assist learning and using the Chinese language include Character Flashcards, a Chinese/English dictionary, a Chinese Namer, and a Western/Chinese Calendar Converter.
http://www.mandarintools.com/
If you like to solve and/or construct crossword puzzles and would like to try one online or generate puzzles for your own homepage, this is the site for you. Puzzles come in three flavors: standard, party and image versions.
http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/index.html
A collection of words and phrases like "jumbo shrimp" and "small crowd" which in their pairing create irony. http://www.specsci.com/donspage/htmldocs/oxymoron.htm
It's enough to give you hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words). Now featuring a reverse phobia list where you can look things up the thing feared.
http://phobialist.com/
There is a widely known alphabet Alpha Bravo ... Yankee Zulu. Such alphabets are variously known as phonetic/radio/spelling/telephone alphabets, and the term analogy alphabet
is also used. This is a collection such alphabets from a variety of languages.
http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/phonetic.html
The Pig Latin Converter will take any web page and convert all the text into Pig Latin. Any link you follow off of a converted page will get converted itself, so you can view the whole Web in Pig Latin! Aboutyay imetay! [New URL]
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/spy4652452/pig.html
A site that lets you create customized puzzles. Includes word search, criss-cross, cryptograms, fallen phrases and much more.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Enter a word in the space provided and hit "Submit." The computer will provide a list of rhyming words, each of which is linked to its definition and thesaurus entry.
http://rhyme.lycos.com/
The web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores where we are reminded that "ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never falls."
http://www.pobox.com/~verbivore
Rosie presents lots of those picture word puzzle I love. She even includes a section to practice on if this type of puzzle is new to you. Great graphics, too! [New URL] http://www.rozies.com/Zzzz/Ringers/R-index.html
Word morphing is changing one word into another by changing one letter at a time with each change resulting in a valid word. You enter a target and a source word, click the Morph Words button and see if morphing is possible.
http://www.sarangworld.com/WORDMORPH/
"SciFaiku is a form of poetry inspired by the Japanese haiku. SciFaiku poems are short, minimal poems about science and science-fiction topics. They are presented with direct, tangible images in clear and simple language. For example: Bathing/ her reptilian skin --/ small bubbles on glossy green... http://scifaiku.com/
You supply basic information regarding the person you wish to complain about and the number of paragraphs the complaint is to contain. Then push the complain button. Amazingly satisfying!
http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint
Lingo from the Far Corner. An interpretive guide for non-Northwesterners who want to get the inside line on the local lingo.
http://www.callihan.com/seattle/lexicon.htm
Signs and notices written in English that were discovered throughout the world. Seen in a Swiss mountain inn. "Special today - no ice cream." http://www-smi.stanford.edu/people/felciano/humor/signs.html
With this handy guide you can use terms like "prairie-dogging," "LOPSOD," and "Lasagna Syndrome" with confidence, just like they do in Silcon Valley.
http://www.sabram.com/site/slang.html
Using the metaphor of a forest as a guide to navigation, this site an online reference and primer to the terms of classical and
renaissance rhetoric, with over 800 terms defined with examples and
references.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
A collection of sniglets -- words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should -- arranged conveniently by category.
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/maddog/stuff/sniglets.html
"Animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently. English and French cows sound the same, but not in
English and French! Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals."
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html
An interactive spelling test which features fifty commonly misspelled words. Take the test and see how you score. At the bottom of the page are tips for how to improve your spelling.
http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html
Parlez vous motors de recheche? Learn how to say "search engines" at those important international conferences with this quick guide.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/sprechen.html
A plethora of wonderful Steven Wright quotes. My favorite: "I went to a restaurant that serves `breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." http://cyclone.weather.net/zarg/ZarPages/stevenWright.html
A list of similes actually used by high school students in various essays/short stories-- believe it or not.
http://kcweb.nhmccd.edu/employee/jsamuels/malaprop.htm
A Jamaican glossary that will have you talking like a native in no time. Includes stories, recipes and photos.
http://www.jamaicans.com/speakja/glossary.htm
Everybody knows 10-4 means OK, but here's a site that will teach you the other 33 codes. Hope you don't 10-22 this site. http://www.provide.net/~bfield/10codes.html
A collection of those ine words that turn animals into adjectives. You know, like dog=canine, cat=feline, and tortoise=testudine. http://www.m-w.com/mw/textonly/lighter/cool/testudin.htm
This page was originally created to give a good group of tongue twisters to people in speech therapy, to people who want to work on getting rid of an accent, or to people who just plain like tongue twisters. Enjoy!
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html
Enter text up to 100 characters and have it translated into hieroglyphics. Site also features a nice hieroglyphic alphabet chart.
http://www.tourism.egnet.net/cafe/tor_trn.htm
Nostalgic for the 80's? Here's a site that will translate the Web site of your choice into, like, valleyspeak. Oh, my gawd!
http://www.80s.com/Entertainment/ValleyURL/
A site honoring how creative people can be when they're limited to expressing themselves to 6 or 8 characters. Links here include help if you need to brush up on license plate basics and a retelling of the story of Oedipus the King told entirely with vanity plates, called Oedipus the King (Of the Road).
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/misc/origplates.html
Two wonderful interactive vocabulary-building games to play. Game 1 features 10 new words every Sunday in the form of multiple choice questions. Click on the definition you think is correct, and the game will tell you instantly if you're right or wrong. Game 2 features 10 different new words posted each Wednesday. You match the words in one column to their definitions in another column. Great fun and your vocabulary will thank you for playing!
http://www.netnet.net/users/jgales/game1.html
VoyCabulary transforms any webpage into links to dictionary or thesaurus lookups. Enter the URL to your favorite website or type in a sentence. Once you're at the page, click on any word to look it up in the dictionary of your choice.
http://www.voycabulary.com/
If you love word games, you'll love this page. Try your hand at such games as "Compound Clues," "Numbletters," "Alpha-Spells," and "Rhyming Buddies." Great fun!
http://www.members.home.net/teachwell/index.htm
Here you'll find on-line dictionaries for over 200 languages are just a click away. Also links to on-line grammar resources. http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
There's more to "Boston English" than pahking cahs in Hahvuhd Yahd, the author of this site explains. They have their own way of pronouncing other words, their own vocabulary, even a unique grammatical construct. This is the just the guide you need to help understand the locals. http://www.boston-online.com/glossary.html
This is the web-page for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which mails out a vocabulary word and its definition (with occasional commentary) to the subscribers every day.
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
This web page features highlights from "Words, Wit and Wisdom," a humorous syndicated newspaper column which has been answering readers' questions about words and language since 1953. http://www.word-detective.com/
When you know some or all of the letters that have to be in a word, but you don't know the exact order of those letters in the word, Word Finder can help. It's great to help solve anagrams and crossword puzzles and to cheat at Scrabble(R). http://www.vainokodas.com/wordplay/findword.html
Create a frequency index, or 'word list', of any text. Just paste or type in your text and select the sort order you'd like. http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html
You enter a word and the computer will come up with a list of words differing from the original word by one letter. [New URL] http://24.253.236.148/fcgi-bin/offbyone.pl
Remember those puzzle games you had as a kid, where you slid letter tiles around in a square to form words? Here's an online version to try.
http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/slide.html
This site takes you on a round trip across the language, answering your questions, offering a selection of new words, snappy quotes and elegant insults, not to mention amazing competitions, Public Scribe Service, Fancy Word Parties and the Lexicographer's Club. http://wordwizard.com/
You translate an arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or cliché. Hard to explain, but lots of fun to do. I love these things!
http://www.cyg.net/~ddoctor/
"If you're one of those folks who can't resist turning words inside out, trying them backwards, or transposing them in your mind, then you'll enjoy Wordles."
Cryptograms, word search, word in a word, links, and more.
http://www.wordles.com/
Play against the clock to test your word knowledge with the interactive active games Boggle and Crossword Challenge.
The site also features an interactive mostly English dictionary and seven interactive tools to help you solve word puzzles.
http://www.wordplays.com/
For me, the definitive page on the riddle that never seems to die, "There are three words in the English language that end with "gry." One is hungry and the other is angry. What is the third word?"
http://www.tempe.gov/library/netsites/gry.htm
Helps you solve those "How many words can you find in a word?" puzzles. You put in your starting word, indicate the minimum number of letters a word can have, and the computer will do the rest. [New URL] http://24.253.236.148/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl
World Wide Words takes a regular sideways glance at the English language, what makes it special and how it has got the way it is. This site features "Articles on Aspects of English," "Turns of Phrase," "The Word Hoard," and "Usage Notes."
http://www.worldwidewords.org/
When I visited this site, the worthless word for the day was scumble
1) a: to make (as color or a painting) less brilliant by covering
with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color
b: to apply (a color) in this manner
2) to soften the lines or colors of (a drawing) by rubbing lightly http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
English sayings and customs that we have grown up with and taken for granted were explained during the web page author's tour of the Anne Hathaway house in Victoria, British Columbia. http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm
To find your name in Latin, enter your first name, last name, and the country (US, Canada, Mexico), state or major city where you
live.
http://www.latin.org/english/name-lookup.html
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