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8 Everyday Words With X-Rated Origins
10 mispronunciations that make you sound stupid
List of collective nouns
10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble
1736 thieves' cant dictionary
The £3,000 'txt-spk' poster that 'undermines English teaching'
Norfolk village tells drivers 'Slow You Down'
Tesco checks out wording change
101 of the World's Funniest One Liners
The secret code of diaries
The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes
Revealing Quotes from the Powerful
Markers award students for writing obscenities on GCSE papers
Team finds language without numbers
College Football Quote of the Week
Merriam-Webster unveils new dictionary words
18 Common Phrases to Avoid in Conversation
Signs in China: A Guide to Understanding Common “Engrish” Expressions. Thanks salamndstron.
Don't Sound Stupid
Twelve Interesting Words
Victorian Back Slang
words and phrases that Shakespeare invented.
30 Psychobabble Phrases - Which Do You Hate Most?
8 words with two meanings…
Dictionary of everyday words defines 'doobly' and 'embuggerance'
Tongue Twisters
50 office-speak phrases you love to hate
One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence
How we read online - Slate Magazine
Has modern life killed the semicolon?
Scottish Pronunciation
How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand
10 Words to Avoid When Writing
Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World
Amusing Stories Behind the 12 Words of Indian Origin That Made It to the Oxford Dictionary
SOS: the signal that has saved thousands turns 100
Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay
Five Lessons in Punctuation
Don't say this -- and why
Top 10 Famous Historic Misquotes
Acronym Dictionary
Boris's quote voted funniest
The Origin of Words You Hear A Lot in the Office
The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World
Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984
Handling Insults: With some of your own
Bottled pet sweat
Nobody cares if your puns were intended. New one from Maddox so it's NSFW.
Elizabethan Expletives
Doctors' Slang, Medical Slang and Medical Acronyms, Veterinary Slang, Veterinary Acronyms
70 Famous Dyslexics
Latin You Should Know
Free Online Language Courses
Give half a proverb to a child, watch the result ...
The greatest letters ever written
The Gallery Of "Misused" Quotation Marks
The Best Geek Quotes
The Latin Library
The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks
Should we simplify spelling?
New dictionary includes 'ginormous'
UsingEnglish.com - Learning English (ESL) Online
Dr. Goodword’s Language Blog
American Underworld Dictionary
Mindy McAdams’s Spelling Test
The ten most hated words on the Internet
At the end of the day, you've given 110 per cent
6 Foreign Expressions You Should Know
Words Invented by Shakespeare
AskOxford
The Con's English - How to write a dictionary in prison
13 words that are better than "random"
The Top 15 Han Solo Quotes You Need to Use in Regular Conversation
25 Most Memorable Quotes
Luciferous Logolepsy - Dragging obscure words into the light of day
A Minor History of Miniature Writing
Helvetica at 50
The Texas German: a unique dialect that developed as German settlers came to central Texas in the 1840s, now dying
Emoticons carry cultural baggage
101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes NSFW
Language recognition chart - Wikipedia
What does "OK" stand for?
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection
Quotefolio: Quotes, sayings, proverbs, and adages
Latin phrases used in English
Online Dating Profile Dictionary
U.S. Army acronyms and expressions
LOL-Kitteh as a Second Language (LKSL-101) in Five Easy Steps
Morse Code Translator
37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes
Take Our Word For It, the weekly word-origin webzine
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Medical Slang
pseudodictionary - the dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries :: v2.0
Ancient Scripts. Take a look at some beautiful ancient scripts, and explore the phenomenon of human language.
The Evolution of Alphabets
The 10 Dumbest George W. Bush Quotes
VideoJug - How To Insult Someone Using British Sign Language
BBC - Languages. Free language lessons.
McDonald's seeks 'McJob' rewrite
Meh - the word that's sweeping the internet
The Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary
How to avoid "cop talk" when reading the news
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Know your Fids from your Fuds?
'Wiki' wins spot in Oxford English Dictionary
Rediculous NSFW
Imponderable Questions. Some more.
Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever
Nominative determinism(Wikipedia) is a term popularised by the magazine New Scientist. It refers to amusing instances where people's names coincidentally reflect some aspect of their jobs, professions or lives. See also Funny Doctor Names and The Doctor's Names List. Example Dr. Richard Chopp - Urologist.
The Devil’s Dictionary (2.0)
From the hard 'c' to the sharp 't', it's a sensational word - Times Online
Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'?
The Dialectizer. Convert English text to any of several comic dialects.
The largest collection of cliches, phrases and sayings with definitions and explanations
A Aptronym is a word that is aptly suited to its owner. More here Aptonyms.
Ethnologue. An encyclopedic reference work cataloguing all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages.
Apostrophe Abuse, Apostrophe Mugshot Gallery and Examples of abuse of the Apostrophe
the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks
Japanese - English Dictionary Server
Parrot with 950 words vocabulary
OEDILF - The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
Urban Dictionary: Define Your World
What is the absolute last word in any dictionary?
Cockney and austrlian rhyming slang terms, translations and definitions
How to Write Good
40 Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation
Sentences that contain all letters commonly used in a language
The Best Geek Quotes, Sayings, and Phrases. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d.
The Board of Wisdom
The Official Scientology and Dianetics Glossary
19th Century British Slang - Lower Class and Underworld
Actual English subtitles used in films made in Hong Kong
Bad Lingo: Blog-Media Cliches
`Truthiness' Is Named Word of the Year
Funny translated Japan-English signs
European English
Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture NSFW TEXT
List of paradoxes - Wikipedia
20 Words That Should Exist
Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever
The AOLer Translator
A Keyboard With Horribly Translated Instructions
Accents speak louder than words
Ay, Bee, Ee Tee Cee...
Wordie
Morse Code Translator
In French-Speaking Canada, the Sacred Is Also Profane
Dog Barks Reveal Universal Language
The World’s Longest Diary
Handwriting is irrelevant
Doctors' Medical Slang and Veterinary Slang
Vote for the 2006 Word of the Year
Half of teacher's can't see this mistake
Top Television Buzzwords of 2006
The 25 Funniest Analogies Collected by High School English Teachers
Flickr: Grocer's Apostrophe
and Flickr: "Quotation Mark" Abuse
ProfaniWiki
Symbols.com - Explore a World of Symbols
Fun With Words - A Celebration of the English Language
Subtly Simpsons
Yep. People Actually Said These...
How Alphabets Evolved
Geek Office Slang
Famous Quotations/Stories of Winston Churchill
Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection
The Vulgar Tongue. A dictionary of the slang of the British underworld produced in 1811.
"Hello" in many languages
More classic insults - Artists and writers being bitchy to each other
Transient Languages & Cultures
Mike Tyson Quotes
Information Nations Slang Linkdump
List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity - Wikipedia
Energy Slang
Names of large numbers - Wikipedia. Do you know what a Septingentillion is?
1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
Phonetic Alphabets
Insults - they just don't make them as they used to
Malaysia to levy fines for poor speech
List of British words not widely used in the United States
Dialects of English
OKCupid! The Commonly Confused Words Test
Global Language Monitor
New insults for English language
Could You Learn 40 Languages?
All your base are belong to us - Wikipedia
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
The Alternative Dictionaries
List of 19 New Words for 2007 :: Sarcastic Cultural Parody
Chiglish - Take Care, Fall Into Water Carefully
How to swear like an old prospector
Kryptonese Alphabet
Numbers in Over 5000 Languages
The Collective Noun Page
Spanish Slang, Expressions, and Idioms: Vulgar NSFW
Word Count By Jesse Sheidlower. Are there really 988,968 words in the English language?
Urban Dictionary: Define Your World
Swear words ranked by rudeness NSFW
Online Language Keeps Parents Guessing. leet = evil according to CBS.
Googles Most Popular Words 2006
Why A? Why do the letters of the alphabet occur in the particular order that they do?
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
How fast can you type your ABCs?
The politically incorrect alphabet
Cruise babyname means "go away pointynosed pickpocket". True or not it's still funny.
Miss Pronouncer: The Wisconsin pronunciation guide
The Official Scientology and Dianetics Glossary
Rasta/Patois Dictionary
Comparative table of languages and language profiles for the prospective learner
Confucius say, top 100 NSFW TEXT
The Secret World of Anagrams
Language Is A Virus
BBC - Languages - Homepage
Wordcount - Tracking the Way We Use Language
Language Tools
History of the English Language
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Quotes about Computer Languages
Language Guesser
The worst word in the language
Confucius say, top 100
The Secret World of Anagrams (via)
Language Is A Virus
BBC - Languages - Homepage
Wordcount - Tracking the Way We Use Language
Language Tools
History of the English Language
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Quotes about Computer Languages
Language Guesser
The worst word in the language
Australian and New Zealand Esperanto Dictionary
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
The 30 Most Spoken Languages in the World
Cuss Control
List of American English words not used in British English
Abuse-a-tron
COW - Programming for Bovines
Famous Plagiarists.com and here is this weeks not-so-famous plagiariser.
Wiktionary. A collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Cockney English
Learn Chinese Characters
BBC America - Dictionary
Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes
Languages and Linguistics. A collection of essays, tables, scripts and facts about the study of language.
LanguageGuide: Foreign Language Vocabulary, Grammar, and Readings
Geordie Phrases. Some more
Swearsaurus
Kenny Translator
The Alternative Dictionaries
Carny Lingo from Welcome to The Fair
Slang City NSFW
Innocent English: Funny English Mistakes from around the world
The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator
Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing
Dictionary of Americanisms
World's Longest Palindrome? 15,139 (no, 17,259) words
The Steely Dan Dictionary
Some (not-so) usefulFrench phrases
Andy's anagram solver
Evolution of the English Alphabet in a GIF stylee. Really cool.
Plain English Campaign awards
Some paradoxes
Pirate Slanguage or Put wood in t'oil. A complete guide to slang.
Ancient Scripts
Irish Dictionary Online. Translate English to Irish/Gaelic and vice-versa.
OEDILF - The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
How Swearing Works
Have no the adult the child that look after with the old man prohibition against the next sea swimming on Flickr
Behind the Name - the Etymology and History of First Names
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Apostrophe Protection Society
Worst quiz answers ever
Bizarre, Obsolete, Odd, Outdated & Weird Words
Scottish Vernacular Dictionary
List of strange units of measurement
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
History of the English Language
What Does That Mean. This site is a free lexicon of English idioms, words, and catch phrases from around the world.
Learn Japanese Podcasts
Victorian Slang Glossary
Magic Words: A Dictionary
Self-Annihilating Sentences
Encyclopedia of Mime
Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5000 Languages
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
Reading Test. Clever.
Finger Frenzy. How fast can you type the alphabet?
Jewish languages
Vocabulary from around the world
Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK
99 Luftballons, Side by Side Comparison
Mandarin 123
Translations that are Marketing Mistakes
Deep Thoughts. Quotable sayings from great minds such as Isaac Newton and Homer Simpson.
The English-to-American Dictionary
The Aussie Slang Dictionary of Australian slang words and Australian phrases
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
Going by letters of the law. A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.
American Sign Language in Animated GIF. Neat.
How to speak Texas English
Things People Said: Courtroom Quotations
English Tongue Twisters
O?blgshezi: Calculator Words
Turn a website you know into 1337. Neat.
Biblical Curse Generator
ProfaniWiki. A very comprehensive list of swear words presented in Wikipedia style. NSFW
20 of your unusual words
Funny words
The Chinglish Files. The humorous version of English that appears (often in instructions for assembling or using products) after a translation from the original Chinese (or any other language) fails to come across in "normal" English.
How to Speak 19th Century
Victorian Slang Glossary
Script / Leet Translator. Impress your kids by pretending you can speak £337.
Self-Annihilating Sentences. Saul Gorn's Compendium Of Rarely Used Cliches.
SlangSite.com - The Slang Dictionary
Drunk Talk. The new crop of beer slang.
English Accents and Dialects
A Dictionary of Old Hobo Slang
Made-up words in The Simpsons
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation. Take the test.
Slang of the 1920's
clwb malu cachu. Swearing in Welsh.
Phrase and word origins
The Drunktionary
Commonalties between German and English
Wikipedia's list of fictional curse words
A parent's primer to computer slang from Microsoft.
Teen Lingo
The history of swearing in the UK
OfficeSlang.com - Funny Office Slang
Japanese English textbook from 1980 NSFW
Offensive terms per nationality
Anagramsite.com
Swearsaurus. How to insult, swear, cuss, and curse in 165 languages!
Learn Chinese in 5 minutes
How to Talk More Awesome
100 Moast Misspeld Wirds
Rasta Dictionary
Words with no English equivalent
Shakespearean Insulter
A humorous conversion of English to Geordie
Massive list of Oxymorons
Language guesser
How to insult, swear, cuss, and curse in 165 languages
Gadsby. A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E”
Interesting English Language Trivia
Specialty Dictionaries including beer, slang and internet dictionaries.
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