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(Accents and speech)
- Beastly Pronunciations
- Did you say "Highjacking" or something else?
- Politics and the English Language (1946)
- Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
- The Scratch Robot
- Voice Squad
(Appeal)
- Origin of "piffy on a rock", "piffy on a rock-bun"
(Current usage/news)
- "Dictionary of the Future"
- ''I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe-I believe what I believe is right."
- 'Apostrophe-box' for spelling errors
- 'Foul' Language and the Modern Internet
- 'In silico' and 'pink Viagra' will be buzzwords for 2002
- 'Ya ya papaya' -- saving Singapore slang
- Academics Issue Annual List Of Hated Words And Phrases
- American English
- Anglo-French language row over new African Nations Cup trophy
- British Spam week cooks up old memories
- Can we Defang the N-Word before We Cleanse People's Minds
- Commentary on the use of "like"
- Corpus-Based Computational Metaphor Analysis
- Creating a parsed and searchable diachronic corpus of present-day spoken English
- David Crystal's "Language and the "Internet" book review
- Defining words can leave some of us tongue-tied
- Dictionary celebrates centenary
- Dictionary celebrates centenary
- Did jurors or 'poetry' acquit the accused?
- Don't Throw It Away
- Enron Scandal Gives Rise to New Verb
- Even pros struggle with corporate re-naming game
- For Most-Favored Term, a Presidential Workout
- Girl power goes mainstream
- Girlfriend out at the Times
- Global English?
- Good Breeding Is for the Dogs; Why Not Memorize Nancy Mitford
- In Europe, Going Global Means, Alas, English
- Interstellar Travelers Will Have to Watch Their Language
- Is Disappearing: What TV news doing to our precious verbs.
- Judge's English-Only Directive Rescinded by Paterson Mayor
- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: 6th CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE
- Lake Superior State University Issues 2002 List of Banished Words
- Let Us Give Thanks
- Let a Simile be your Umbrella
- Librarians Debate Internet Filters
- Linguist Suggests Universal Grammar Rules
- Metonymy and Conceptual Blending
- Michigan Court Revokes 1897 State Law Against Swearing (AP)
- Mind, Language and Metaphor: Euroconference on Consciousness and the Imagination
- Mr Blunkett should watch his words
- New Gender-Neutral Bible Planned
- New book challenges theories of black speech
- Nitty-gritty
- Noam Chomsky interviewed by the British Broadcasting Corporation
- Of Nerds And Words: The etymology of technology terms we know and love
- Oxford English Dictionary plans growth in U.S. staff
- Plain English Campaign awards "Foot in Mouth Award" to Tracey Emin
- Political success is as easy as ABC...
- Reflections on Creative Writing Class
- School to teach in native languages
- Seoul City to hear from foreigners on faulty English usage
- Singapore filmmaker launches campaign to save local patois
- Speaking in tongues
- Spelling Fines for Swiss Journalists
- Supertitles Are Starting to Become Part of the Act
- Swedish-English Dictionary
- The Law of the Playground (playground slang)
- The Philosophy of Punctuation
- Volunteers Sought for Real-Time Web Translator
- Young Scots breathe new life into auld slang rhymes
(Definitions)
- A Big List of Non-Standard Theatrical Terms
- A Glossary of European Noble, Princely, Royal, and Imperial Titles.
- A Glossary of the Low Life
- A Prisoner's Dictionary
- American Slang
- Anthimeria
- Charactonym
- Cockney Rhyming Slang at the Stevies
- Collective Terms for Animals
- Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
- Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms
- Encyclopedia Georgetannica
- Gay Slang Dictionary
- Glossary of "Gay" Slang
- Glucksberg, Sam (2001) Understanding Figurative Language: From Metaphors to Idioms
- Is it "Perl" or "perl"?
- My Solid Pigeon, That Drape Is a Killer-Diller
- Names of colours
- Netlingo
- Online Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
- Polyptoton
- Pyramid Lingo
- QUESTION: What is a blogger'?
- Road name bewitches UK village
- Scottish Dialect
- Slayer Slang (Part 1)
- Spook Lingo
- Synesthesia, Synaesthesia
- The Aliens' Guide to Oxford University: Glossary of terms
- The Cook's Thesaurus
- The Jargon Scout
- The Nature of Kinship: Glossary of Terms
- The Online Slang Dictionary
- The Phobia List
- The Pseudo Dictionary
- The Rap Dictionary
- The inside dope on '420' buzz
- This is aaronland
- Use of 'whence' that makes one wince
- Welcome to The Wordtree - - the world's only full-language Reverse Dictionary
- What is "phatic poetry"?
- What is a collection of literary passages used as an aid for language learning?
- What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?
- What is the difference between "Eradicate" and "Irradicate"?
- What is the difference between "Factious" and "Factitious"?
- What is the difference between "Ingenuous" and "Ingenious"?
- What is the difference between "Sanatory" and "Sanitary"?
- What is the difference between "allegory" and "parable"?
- What is the difference between "barbell" and "dumbbell"?
- What is the difference between "connote" and "denote"?
- What is the difference between "credible" and "creditable"?
- What is the difference between "disabled" and "handicapped"?
- What is the difference between "epigraph" and "epigram"?
- What is the difference between "exoteric" and "esoteric"?
- What is the difference between "flounder" and "founder"
- What is the difference between "historic" and "historical"?
- What is the difference between "luxuriant" and "luxurious"?
- What is the difference between "simile" and "metaphor"?
- What is the name of someone who studies the science of wealth?
- What is the name of the vessel or container in which incense is burnt?
- What is the opposite of "euphemism"?
- What is the origin of "Teddy Bear"?
- What is the plural of "oxymoron"?
- What was the name given to gladiators who carried a net and trident?
- What word can be used to describe a habitual liar?
- What word can be used to describe something that is outstandingly poor?
- What word describes a person who blathers (talks nonsense)?
- What word describes a person who is unfailingly boring?
- What word describes poor handwriting or bad spelling?
- What word describes redundancies like "PIN number"? "Advanced planning"?
- What word describes the "shimmering" illusion one sees over swimming pools and small ponds?
- What word describes the act of removing the inserts (advertisements, etc) from a Sunday newspaper?
- What word means "a collection of literary fragments or extracts"?
- What word means "ambiguous speech or wording?
- What word means "an undistinguished descendant of an illustrious person"?
- What word means "elegance of literary construct or style"?
- Which is correct "deep-seeded" or "deep-seated"?
- Which is correct: "CV" or "Resume"?
- Wonga, dosh or bread, it's cash, depending on where you live
- chiasmus (ky-AZ-mus) n .a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.
(Dictionaries)
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Searches five Cambridge Dictionaries for a single word.
- Dictionary.com - Search for one word across multiple dictionaries.
- Merriam Webster's Site Map
- Microsoft Encarta World English Dictionary (North American Edition)
- On-line dictionaries
- Onelook provides a very special "Internet search engine" that finds on-line dictionaries that contain the word you look for. The actual dictionaries are provided by other web sites.
- Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias
- The Lycos Research Center
- The Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
- Thesaurus, Phrases and Quotations
- Yourdictionary.com has a quick lookup, word of the day (English and Spanish), articles, and essays on English topics. It's great!
- xrefer is the web's reference engine, a unique service providing free access to the largest collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and quotations
(Education/learning English)
- English-only education over bilingual education is explored in Contexts, ASA's newest magazine
- Introducing the Old Favorites
- Sentence Diagramming Makes a Comeback
- Speak better with a snip of the tongue
- U.S. firm to test China's English skills on the Net
(Etymology)
- Etymologically Speaking
- Is it "Webelo" or "Webelos"?
- Martha Barnette's Funwords
- Naming the Saints
- Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse
- Origin of the word "Hoax"
- Searchable, Browsable Directory of Medical Eponyms
- Snobs Are Made, Not Born
- The Etymology of "Marzipan"
- The Etymology of "Rock and Roll"
- The Etymology of First Names
- The Great Jones
- The Protean N-Word
- The etymology of punctuation marks
- The power of seven - Chronicles of chronology
- Whack or wack?
- What is the etymology of "Boondock"? "Boondocks"?
- What is the etymology of "Enron"?
- What is the etymology of "Ground Zero"?
- What is the etymology of "Maidenhead" (Berks)?
- What is the etymology of "Mondegreen"?
- What is the etymology of "Pizza Margherita"? "Pizza Margarita"?
- What is the etymology of "nick in time"? "just in the nick of time"?
- What is the etymology of "nickname"? "nick-name"
- What is the etymology of Coochie-Coo, Hooch, Hoochy, Hootchy, Hootchie-Cootchie?
- What is the etymology of the "F-Word"? "F*CK"?
- What is the origin of "Bog Standard"?
- What is the origin of "High Muckety Mucks"? "High Muck a Mucks"? "High Muckty Mucks"? "High Muckety Muck on the Totem Pole"?
- What is the origin of "Mexican wave"?
- What is the origin of "OK"? "Okay"?
- What is the origin of "brass monkey"? "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"?
- What is the origin of "ducks in a row"??
- What is the origin of "get a life"?
- What is the origin of "in the limelight"? "lime light"?
- What is the origin of "naff"? "naff off"?
- What is the origin of "salt of the earth"?
- What is the origin of "scot free"? "to go scot-free"?
- What is the origin of "shanks' pony"? "shanks pony"? "shanks mare"?
- What is the origin of "slush fund"?
- What is the origin of "squaw"? "Nebraska"? "Sioux"? "Dakota"?
- What is the origin of "suits to a T"? "suits to a tee"?
- What is the origin of "that's cool"?
- What is the origin of "the life of Riley"? "life of Reilly"?
- What is the origin of "this neck of the woods"? "our neck of the woods?"
- What is the origin of "to make no bones about"?
- What is the origin of "to ramp up"?
- What is the origin of "to the bitter end"?
- What is the origin of the word "Hooligan"?
(Fine shades of meaning)
- His idea to link words rewrote the dictionary
- What are the differences between "Highway", "Freeway", "Expressway" and "Turnpike"?
- What is the difference between "Home" page and "Welcome" page?
- What is the difference between "Scotch" and "Scottish"?
- What is the difference between "adverse" and "averse"
- What is the difference between "catachresis" and "metaphor"?
- What is the difference between "convince" and "persuade"?
- What is the difference between "elude" and "evade"?
- What is the difference between "euphemism" and "euphuism"?
- What is the difference between "gibberish" and "gobbledegook"? "gobbledygook"?
- What is the difference between "orientate" and "orient"?
- Which is correct: "Geneva Convention" or "Geneva Conventions"?
(Folklore/proverbial expressions)
- "Angels on the head of a pin" versus "angels on the point of a needle"?
- The Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Debate: Fallacies and Confusions
- What is the origin of "Bob's your uncle"? "Bob is your uncle"?
- What is the origin of "an ace in the hole"?
- What is the origin of "an albatross around one's neck"?
- What is the origin of "as old as the hills"?
- What is the origin of "balls to the wall"?
- What is the origin of "beyond the pale"?
- What is the origin of "blue blood"? "blue blooded"?
- What is the origin of "in one fell swoop"?
- What is the origin of "making the beast with two backs"?
- What is the origin of "to eat crow"? "eat boiled crow"? "Crow McGee"?
- What is the origin of the term "continental breakfast"?
- What is the origin of to "beat swords into ploughshares"?
- Where does the phrase "flipping the bird" come from?
- Where does the phrase "taking the mick", "taking the mickey" come from?
- Where does the phrase 'touch wood' come from?
- Which is correct "Tow the line" or "Toe the line"?
- Why is New York City called The Big Apple?
(Grammar)
- FAQ: Is it "an ef-ay-cue" or "a fack"?
- Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors
- Has Grammar Lost Its Technological Edge?
- He, She, or They?
- How should the apostrophe be used on plural nouns?
- Prepositions to end Sentences With
- Thamiris' Sexed-Up Grammar Guide
- The "Oxford Comma"
- The point outscores musicals
- What are the correct usages of "to lie" and "to lay"?
- Which is correct: "different from", or "different than"?
- Why bad grammar ain't so bad
(Jargon and Slang)
- A Glossary for Medieval English Towns
- A collection of Naval slang, abbreviations, legends and historical tit-bits which was originally compiled by Commander A. Covey-Crump, RN, a former Naval Assistant to the Chief of Naval Information
- A glossary of palace terms
- A large collection of glossaries
- A monster online dictionary of the rich colourful language we call slang... all from a British perspective, with new slang added every month.
- Baggot Leaf Gilding Glossary
- Best sites on slang
- British Slang
- Drug Related Street Terms/Slang Words
- Elecronics Music Dictionary
- European nobility background
- Jargon for bullfighting enthusiasts
- Jargon for coin collectors
- Jargon for graffiti artists
- Jargon for license plate collectors
- Jazz Age Slang
- Nitpickers Guild Glossary
- Rabbit language
- The Ultimate Silicon Valley Slang Page - Index
- The a.b.m.e. "Capping" glossary
- The online dictionary of playground slang
- These pages contain words and expressions you most likely won't find in a normal dictionary. This is an experimental "internet collaborative project", which means that all entries are made by internet users
- This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
- Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: This is the language spoken by Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer and the Continental Op. When Cagney, Bogart, Robinson and Raft got in a turf war, this is how they talked.
(Language history)
- "No lawful standard...": The Evolution of English Dictionaries
- "The Old English Pages". An acclaimed site with a mailing list, downloads, and further links.
- 'A Is for American': The Republic of Letters (book review)
- 12th & 13th Century English Textile Surnames
- A brilliant set of pages on the early history of human languages
- AUE Contributors John Lawler and Aaron Dinkin provide an *excellent* reference for Latin sources for grammatical terms.
- Ansaxdat is the full-text database for the Listserv discussion group ANSAXNET. It is stored on the library server of the Queen Elizabeth II Library at Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland.
- Articles on the history of English
- Civil War Slang
- Deciphering Old Handwriting
- Glossary of Old Names (for diseases)
- Herder: An essay on the origin of language. Superb!
- How bona to varda your eeks!
- Is English the "Official" Language of the UK?
- Is the English language changing?
- Mark Twain and the English Language
- Search Studies in English Literature
- Search The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
- The "Perseus Digital Library". An Internet treasure!
- The Great Vowel Shift
- The History of American English
- The origin of the @ symbol
- Tony Jebson's site on learning Old English. This site includes articles on the history and origins of Old English.
- What is the oldest phrase in English still in current use?
(Other)
- "Slanguage"
- Alphabet Soup
- Arda, or Ardor: Getting to the Root of Tolkien's Tongues
- Australian in Court to Keep Catchy Moniker
- Book Review, They Have a Word for It
- Carleton County Colloquialisms
- Cliche Finder
- Drop us a line
- Economically Disadvantaged Men More Skilled At Communicating Attraction to Women
- English, as She is Spoke at McMurdo.
- English/Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary
- Ever been to Lickey End?
- How Do You Say 'Oops' in French?
- How to Write a Better Weblog
- Kevin's Word Lists Page
- News sources
- Open Brackets: Lost in Translation
- Organisations, societies and associations
- Propaganda Techniques: Word Games - Euphemisms
- Search for the Perfect Baby Name
- Site statistics
- Synecdoche in Music
- The Maledicta Press
- The most beautiful words in the English language
- Use Bizarre Metaphors
- What does "YAELF" mean?
- What is the '@' sign called?
- Wizard Words
- WordNet: a lexical database for the English language
- WordWeb: the free thesaurus and dictionary for Windows
(People)
- Aue's Lars Eighner creates online version of "Lavender Blue"!
- Aue's Laura Spira Publishes!
- Aue's Sara M. Lorimer publishes!
(Phrase origins)
- What is the origin of "the whole nine yards"?
- (CA) Did the word "hobo" come from the town "Hoboken"?
- (DW) What is the origin of "the whole nine yards"?
- (IPL) My name is..., and I've always wondered what it means. How can I find out?
- (IPL) What about some words that end in -gry?
- (IPL) What is a group of crows called? What is a group of [your animal] called?
- (IPL) What is the origin of the phrase "Once in a blue moon"?
- (IPL) What is the proper usage of neither and nor? How do I use who and whom correctly? What's a present participle?
- (IPL) What is the right name for the @ sign?
- (IPL) What is the source of "Something Wicked This Way Comes"?
- (IPL) Why is New York City called "The Big Apple"?
- (IPL) Why were WWI infantry called "doughboys"? What does the "D" in D-Day stand for? How far is a klick?
- (WD) AUE Contributor Mike asks, I was struck by the phrase "to queer the pitch" as I used it the other day. What game? How did one "queer the pitch"?
- (WD) Any ideas on the origins of the expression "nitty-gritty"? I heard today a rather horrible suggestion that it referred to the debris left in the bottom of slave ships after their voyages, once the slaves remaining alive had been removed.
- (WD) Any thoughts on the origin of bog-standard, as in bog-standard comprehensive?
- (WD) Can you enlighten me about the origins of "mad as a hatter"?
- (WD) Do you know where the phrase Frick and Frack originated? I'm sure it wasn't because of the Back Street Boys.
- (WD) During an Internet dialogue, the question came up - why do people say Jesus H Christ? It never seems to be any other letter. It sounds American, but what does it stand for and where did it originate? Holy seems to be a strong candidate, or could it
- (WD) I am interested in the phrase hammer and tongs because it is used by our fraternity (Theta Tau, a professional fraternity for engineering students). We are of the belief that this is a very old English phrase
- (WD) I am looking for the origin and meaning of the phrase "Heavens to Betsy".
- (WD) I am looking into how the expression "on the fritz" came about. Please help.
- (WD) I have heard an American friend of mine use the phrase kitty corner to describe things that are diagonally opposed, as for example: 'The drugstore is kitty corner to the ice-cream parlor'. Have you heard this phrase before and do you have any clue a
- (WD) I'm not sure how you would spell "hunky dorey", but it means 'just great', or something like that. Where does it come from?
- (WD) I've heard the expression brand spanking new many times and am curious about its origin. Any ideas?
- (WD) Is it true that to "let the cat out of the bag" relates to flogging with a cat o' nine tails?
- (WD) Is there a story behind the phrase donkey's years?
- (WD) My new puppy has really gotten my goat, and I was wondering how the heck that phrase came to be?
- (WD) The bee's knees informally means the best, the most desirable. How did the saying originate?
- (WD) The other day, I used the expression brass monkey weather and was asked to explain. Any ideas?
- (WD) What are the names of some exotic phobias?
- (WD) What explaination can be given for the rhyme, "Pop Goes the Weasel"?
- (WD) What is a "mondegreen"?
- (WD) What is the origin and actual meaning of bob's your uncle?
- (WD) What is the origin of "at sixes and sevens"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "beck and call"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "beyond the pale"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "bodacious"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "boondocks"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "going to Hell in a handbasket"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "honeymoon"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "hooligan"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "mind your 'p's and 'q's"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "on tenterhooks"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "on the wagon"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "scot free"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "that's all she wrote"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "the whole ball of wax"?
- (WD) What is the origin of "to have a millstone around one's neck"? "put through the mill"? "all is grist for the mill"? "keeping your nose to the grindstone"? "run of the mill"?
- (WD) What is the origin of Elephant and Castle? Is it really from Infanta of Castile?
- (WD) What is the origin of the phrase "goody two shoes"?
- (WD) What is the origin of the phrase "to the nines"?
- (WD) What is the origin of the term big cheese as in 'He's a big cheese in the rugby world'?
- (WD) What is the origin of the word "loggerhead?"
- (WD) What is the origin of the word "posh"?
- (WD) What is the source of "the whole kit and kaboodle"?
- (WD) Why are pounds, when used as a weight, abbreviated "lbs"?
- (WWW) What is the etymology of "ETAOIN SHRDLU"?
- (WWW) What is the etymology of "ambient"?
- (WWW) What is the etymology of "balderdash"?
- (WWW) What is the etymology of "bated breath"? ("baited breath"?)
- (WWW) What is the etymology of "paparazzo"?
- (WWW) What is the etymology of "pie"?
- (WWW) What is the origin of "hocus-pocus"?
- (Williams) What is a metaphor? a metonymy? a synecdoche? an oxymoron? a hyperbole? a zeugma? an epizeuxis? a tautology?
- What is a "shpritz"?
- What is the origin of "Bad Hair Day"?
- What is the origin of "Blue Laws"?
- What is the origin of "Dibs"? "Dibbies"? To have "Dibs on"?
- What is the origin of "Doodly Squat"? "Diddly Squat"?
- What is the origin of "To pay the piper"? "He who pays the piper..."?
- What is the origin of "begs the question"?
- What is the origin of "lie back and think of England"? "close your eyes and think of England"?
- What is the origin of "red letter day"?
- What is the origin of "shi*t-eating grin"? "a big shi*t-eating grin"?
- What is the origin of "the bee's knees"?
- What is the origin of "Sweetbread"?
- Which is correct: "bated breath" or "baited breath"?
- Why do we refer to a pound as a 'quid'?
(Pondial differences)
- A Tale of Two Languages
- English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
- I Say Tomato
- Snipe hunting in Afghanistan
- The Great Aussie BBQ Game
- The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy
- What is "Hiberno-English"? Is it a dialect of English?
- Which is the correct word for the first course of a meal: "entre" or "starter"?
(Recreation/puzzles)
- "Bogglers: Welcome to the fold"
- The Devil's Derivatives Dictionary
(Recreation/puzzles/offbeat)
- A day in the life of the zeitgeist
- A dictionary of non-existent words
- An essay on obscuring one's language
- BuzzWhack: Dedicated to de-mystifying buzzwords
- Can you talk the talk?
- Censorship at World Scrabble Championships
- Colemanballs
- EUROPANTO(TM) : Erste sitio TAM worldial
- Generate postmodern gibberish
- Glossary of lesser-known technical terms
- Looking at Language: Jest for the Pun of It
- Loops
- Lost in Translation
- Malaprops I have known
- Never heard of octopi jujitsu? Try Goglewhacking
- People commonly ask empty rhetorical questions that rarely receive any sort of sensible answer. When you have had your surfeit of poetical whimsy and are ready for some good, hard facts, come here to be set straight.
- Rhyming dictionary
- The Drug Slang Translator
- The English to Geordie Translator
- The Glossosaurus
- The Not So Correct Dictionary
- The Southern Word Homepage (Humor)
- The Spam Letters
- The Surrealist Compliment Generator
- The Top 20 Bad Suspense Novel Metaphors or Similes
- The Web Economy Bullsh*t Generator
- The alternative FAQ For alt.usage.english
- Weird and Wonderful Words Vocabulary Quiz
- Which word is better?
- Woody's World of Penis Euphemisms
- Words You've Never Heard, and Events You'll Never Forget, In a Quiz!!
- Yogi-isms
- www.We Made Out in a Tree and This Old Guy Sat and Watched Us.com
(Spelling)
- Human Spell Check
- Is English the only language that has spelling bees?
- Spelling errors dominate education fight
- The Difference Between Saving A Buck Or Two And Blowing $20 Is Spelling COLLECT Right
- YOUTH WINS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WITH 'PROSPICIENCE'
(Usenet/Netiquette)
- The geeks who saved Usenet
- The need for simple English on the Web

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