FUN WITH
WORDS, FUN WITH LANGUAGE, AND YOU MIGHT JUST LEARN A THING OR
TWO.
I'm a Bear of Very Little
Brain, and long words bother me.
--Pooh Bear
If you come to a fork in
the road, take it.
--Yogi
Berra
Things are more like they
are now than they have ever been before.
--Dwight Eisenhower
You can lead a
horticulture but you can't make her think.
--Dorothy Parker ( when
asked to use this word in a sentence)
WORDS/LANGUAGE
Routes
To English
Evolving English, Humor and Cussing,
Accents and Dialects
|
World
Wide Words
Exploring the English language--its
history, quirks, curiosities, and evolution.
|
Word
Wizard
For
crossword lovers, writers, and hypertext enthusiasts. . . language lovers.
"Elegant insults, snappy quotes." |
Wilton's
Etymology Page
For
one thing, the most comprehensive history of the "f-word" you'll ever
see.
|
Language
Miniatures
Mini
essays about all aspects of human language.
|
Wordwatch
Coubuilder,
the human counterpart of a
vast computer
database known
as the Bank
of
English.
|
Collins
Cobuild
300 million words drawn
from hundreds of text and spoken word sources.
|
The
Word Detective
Bet
you always wanted to know the roots of acne . . .in great historical
detail.
|
Verbivore
"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." |
Entymologic
"The toughest word game on the
Web." |
Logophilia
The Word Lover's Web Site
|
Word
Play: Sites that Feature Fun with Words
|
Definitions
Game
Try
your hand at a language game. |
Aphorisms
Galore
"Feed
Your Wit." |
Brain
Candy
|
Word
Search
|
A
Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
|
Origin
and Meaning of First Names
|
I haven't committed a
crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
--David Denkins, former
New York city mayor
It isn't the pollution
that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that
are doing it.
--Dan
Quale
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