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Vocabulary HelperAbbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. GovernmentThe name says it all.
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html Acronym FinderA database of 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/ Action VerbsA list of verbs to help you brag about your accomplishments on a resume.
http://www.earlham.edu/~career/resume/verbs.html Alan Cooper\'s Homonym ListWords, 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 Alta Vista Translation ServiceYou 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 Amanda\'s Mnemonics PageA 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 American Slanguages: The Hick-to-Hip Translation GuideChoose a city and learn to talk like the locals.
http://www.slanguage.com/index2.html AmerispeakExpressions 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 Ambigram.ComAmbigrams 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/ The Anagram Genius ServerDid you know that rearranging the letters of "George Bush" gives "He bugs Gore," 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 Anagram Hall of FameHere 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 Animated American Sign Language DictionaryLearn to sign letters and words, with animation to help you.
http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/index_nf.html AntagonymsAn 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 Automatic WWW Text BorkifierEnter 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 BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and AcronymsThis 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 Behind the Name: The Etymology and History of First NamesThis site looks into the meaning and history of common first names.
http://www.behindthename.com/ Bilingual Vocabulary QuizzesInteractives quizzes to help you learn and review vocabulary in a variety of foreign languages.
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/v/ The Book of Cliches: Phrases to Say in Times of TroubleCliches 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 Brain Food: Puzzles For the Brain To Gnaw OnGive 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/ Brendan\'s Amazing Anagram GeneratorThis 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 Brendan\'s Phone Anagram GeneratorThis 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 Broken Rules PageHere 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 The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home PageWhere "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/ Burma Shave SignsThis 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 Canadian Aptonym CentreA 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/ Candy is Dandy But Liquor Is Quicker: Ogden Nash OnlineI\'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/ Canonical Abbreviations/Acronyms ListSome of these will have you ROFLASTC (Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat).
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/abbrev.html Casey\'s Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru)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.comChiasmus 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/ Christine Lavin Home PageNot 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/ Cliche FinderHave 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 clichs which use that phrase. Over 3,300 cliches indexed!
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/ A Collection of Word Oddities and TriviaA 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 The Collective Noun HomepageThis page as much fun as an exaltation of larks and an ostentation of peacocks.
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/ The College Slang PageThey\'ve got the 411 on the hip talk in the hallowed halls. Check it out!
http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~jasanders/slang/ Common Errors in EnglishHuge A to Z listing of common errors as well as a collection of links to related resources.
http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html Complex Statements for the Simple-MindedA 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 Country Western Song GeneratorLike 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/ Crazy EnglishRichard Lederer\'s wonderful essay in which he reminds us, "Lets 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 Crazy LibsRead brief original stories or excerpts from classic literature with your words strategically inserted to produce whacky results.
http://www.rinkworks.com/crazylibs/ Create Your Own Shakespearean InsultsCombine 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 Crossword Solver (Sorta)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 CrackerCrypto 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 The Darmok DictionaryRemember 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 Demented LyricsAn 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 The Dictionary of Mountain Bike SlangThis 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 The DialectizerTranslate 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/ Dillon\'s Online Vocabulary TestsTests designed to increase your vocabulary through interactive quizzes with definitions and etymologies.
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/tomdillon/index.html Do-It-Yourself Country and Western SongFill 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 The Doctor\'s (and Other Health Care Practitioners) Names ListCollection 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 eLibsJust like the Madlibs you did as a kid. Read the eLibs that others have come up with or supply your own nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. to create wacky stories.
http://www.elibs.com/ Empty Trash Talk"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/ English as She is Spoke"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 English Is Tough Stuff"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.unique.cc/ron/estuff.htm English Signs from Around the WorldActual 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 The Enigma DeviceA 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/ English to Pig Latin TranslatorEnter 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 EponymsAn 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 EtymologicCalling 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 An Evening (Wasted) with Tom Lehrer -- LyricsIf 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 Fake Out! The Definition Guessing GameChoose a level and a word and see if you can guess its definition.
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/dictionary/ Foreign Languages for TravelersSelect 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/ FreeTranslation.comFree 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/ The Funny Farm -- Marriage Names"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 Gallery of "Misused" Quotation MarksYou\'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/ German Words in EnglishList of German words that have found their way into the English language.
http://www.daube.ch/opinions/sprache06.html Gourmet World -- Cooking GlossariesGourmet 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 Haiku Writer: Computer Generated HaikuComputer-generated poetry. Click reload to see a new collection.
http://www.familygames.com/features/humor/haiku.html
HangmanInteractive game where you have to figure out the letters in a word before the stick figure swings.
http://www.better-english.com/hangman/hangone.htm
The Heteronym HomepageHeteronyms 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 HomographsHomographs are words that have identical spellings but different pronunciations and different meanings.
http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/wordlist/homogrph.html Horn Tooting AdjectivesLong list of adjectives to use to describe yourself on a resume.
http://www.earlham.edu/~career/resume/adjectives.html Horsename-O-MaticCreate magnificent names for all kinds of horses - equestrian, trotting, galloping by just pushing the button.
http://home.c2i.net/bjarteas/english.html How To Write Your Name in Mayan GlyphsThis 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 InvestorWords"The biggest, best investing glossary on the Web" with over 6,000 investing terms and 20,000 links between related words.
http://www.investorwords.com/ I\'d Like To Have a "Word" With You!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 Jennifer\'s Language PageWondering 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 Word Search PuzzlesJohn\'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 Jumble and Crossword SolverYou 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 The Klingon Language InstituteDedicated 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 HutLadle 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 Linguistic OlympicsAt the Linguistic Olympics secondary students compete by solving puzzles in languages they have never learned. This site contains sample puzzles from past US Linguistic Olympics competitions.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/ Linguistic Phenomena/DevicesThis 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 Little ExplorersA multi-lingual (English; English to Spanish; English to French) picture dictionary with wonderful graphic and links. [New URL]
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html Longest Place Name in the WorldYou\'ll need a giant envelope to send them mail!
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/name.html Mag\'s Word FinderEver wondered how many words you could make out of the letters in your name? or "Merry Christmas?" or ... ? This is the place to find out. Choose a dictionary, type in a word or phrase, and fire away!
http://magswordfinder.com/ MalapropismsNamed 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 Medspeak -- The Dictionary of ERFind 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 The Monthly IdiomEvery 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/ Names for PetsWondering what to name your new pet? Heres an A to Z listing of names.
http://gladpet.com/names/ Native Tongue -- Discover the Hawaiian LanguageLearn the lingo of the original surfers! Audio clips help you talk like a native.
http://www.aloha-hawaii.com/hawaii_magazine/hawaiian/index.shtml Nautical Expressions in the VernacularCollection 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 NetGlos - The Multilingual Glossary of Internet TerminologyStill 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 Never Say NeverismsWilliam 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 The New Hacker\'s DictionaryA 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 New Words in EnglishNeologisms 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 ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information ScienceLearn to talk like a librarian.
http://www.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html OED Online: Word of the DayThe Oxford English Dictionary presents a word a day complete with pronunciation, spellings, etymology, quotations and date chart.
http://oed.com/cgi/display/wotd Oly-hay Ible-bayThe Bible in Pig Latin. Genesis, Job and John currently available.
http://www.well.com/user/earl/Ible-bay.html On Finally Achieving Perfect CopyAn 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 On-line Chinese ToolsTools 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/ Once Upon a PalindromeA story and a word game in one. You come up with a palindrome that logically finishes each section.
http://members.home.net/starview/palintro.htm Online CrosswordsIf 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 Online Hieroglyphics TranslatorEnter text and have it translated into hieroglyphics.
http://www.quizland.com/hiero.htm OxymoronsA collection of phrases like "jumbo shrimp" and "small crowd" which in their pairing create irony.
http://www.specsci.com/donspage/htmldocs/oxymoron.htm The Periodic Table of PoetryChemistry and poetry together as never before. Click on your favorite element for a poem.
http://www.superdeluxe.com/elemental/Phobia ListIt\'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/ PhoneSpellEnter a 6 to 10 digit phone number and find out what words and phrases your phone number spells.
http://www.phoneSpell.org/phoneSpell.html Phonetic Alphabets (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...)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 Phrase FinderBrowse or search this phrase thesaurus. Includes meanings and/or derivations.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/go.html The Pig Latin ConverterThe 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!
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/spy4652452/pig.html PuzzlemakerA site that lets you create customized puzzles. Includes word search, criss-cross, cryptograms, fallen phrases and much more.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ Rap DictionaryThis one is for serious rappers. Parental advisory included.
http://www.rapdict.org/dictionary_0.html Rhetorical FiguresFrom alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html RhymeZone: The Rhyming Dictionary and ThesaurusEnter 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/ Richard Lederer\'s Verbivore PageThe 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\'s RingersRosie 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!
http://www.rozies.com/Zzzz/Ringers/R-index.html Sarangworld Word MorphingWord 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/ Sayings and Everyday ExpressionsDiscover the meanings and origins of popular sayings.
http://geocities.com/PicketFence/7608/index.html SciFaiku.com"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/ Scott Pakin\'s Automatic Complaint Letter GeneratorYou 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! [New URL]
http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/individual/pakin/complaint Scrabble HelperHelps you figure out how to best use those tiles in your Scrabble rack. [New URL]
http://68.38.164.69/fcgi-bin/scrabble.pl A Seattle LexiconLingo 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 InternationalSigns 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 SignWritingLearn how to read, write and type signed languages.
http://www.signwriting.org/read.html Silva Rhetorica: The Forest of RhetoricUsing 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 SnigletsA 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 Sounds of the World\'s Animals"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 Southern Word HomepageA dictionary of how to speak Southern.
http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html Spelling TestAn 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 Sprechen Sie Search Engines?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 Steven Wright QuotesA 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 Student Struggles with SimilesA 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 Taglines Galore!Featuring over 300,000 taglines. Not a blurb in the bunch.
http://www.taglinesgalore.com/ Talk JamaicanA 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 Ten CodesEverybody 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 The Testudine and the LeporineA 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 Tom SwiftiesExcruciating adverbial puns some collected, some created, by Michael Curl as part of his "thinks.com" site.
http://thinks.com/words/tomswift.htm Tongue Twister DatabaseThis 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 travalang\'s Translating DictionariesOn-line translating dictionaries for German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Frisian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Czech, Esperano and Latin.
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/ Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled SlangWith the help of this glossary you too can talk like Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Mike Hammer.
http://www.vex.net/~buff/slang.html Valley URLNostalgic 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/ Vanity License PlatesA 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 Vocabulary Stretching GamesTwo 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 VoyCabularyVoyCabulary 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/ Wacky World of WordsIf 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! [New URL]
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/teachwell/ A Web of On-Line DictionariesHere 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 The Wicked Good Guide to Boston EnglishThere\'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 A Word A DayThis 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 The Word DetectiveThis 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/ Word FinderWhen 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.
http://www.vainokodas.com/wordplay/findword.html Word Frequency IndexerCreate 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 Word JumblesHelps you unscramble words with up to 25 characters.
http://68.38.164.69/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl?option=jumble Word MorphsYou enter a word and the computer will come up with a list of words differing from the original word by one letter.
http://68.38.164.69/fcgi-bin/offbyone.pl Word Slide AppletRemember 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 A Word With YouA daily column on word or phrase origins with a fun interactive hangman-like game called Dunceinstein.
http://www.accessone.com/~lparos/ The Word WizardThis 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/ Wordies On the WebYou translate an arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or clich. Hard to explain, but lots of fun to do. I love these things!
http://www.cyg.net/~ddoctor/ Wordles: Home of Word Fun, Word Games, Word Puzzles and Word Play!"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/ Wordly Wise WordGamesAn unusual and challenging collection of great word games.
http://www.hoadworks.com/gamemenu.htm WordplaysPlay 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/ Words & StuffJed Hartman\'s weekly column on words and wordplay.
http://kith.org/logos/words/words.html Words Ending with -GRYFor 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 Words in a WordHelps 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.
http://68.38.164.69/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl World Wide WordsWorld 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/ The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation ServerA searchable database of acronyms and abbreviations and their expansions.
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html Worthless Word For The Day (wwftd)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/ Ye Olde English SayingsEnglish 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 YiddishkeitA gallery of Yiddish expressions transliterated and arranged A-Z. Gai gezunterhait!
http://www.pass.to/glossary/Default.htm Your Name in LatinTo find your name in Latin, enter your first name, last name, and the country (US, Canada, Mexico), state or major city where you live.
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