| 1. | The Mavens' Word of the Day | | | Daily explanation about new words, word origins, and slang expressions from Jesse Sheidlower, a senior editor in Random House's Reference Division.
www.randomhouse.com |
| 3. | The Word Detective | | | Words and language in a humorous vein. The online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. Written by Evan Morris.
www.word-detective.com |
| 4. | MooT | | | The game of grammar, semantics, and etymology. Play online the game that investigates the history and meaning of English words.
www.mootgame.com |
| 6. | Focusing on Words | | | An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.
www.wordfocus.com |
| 10. | Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular | | | Myriad expressions in everyday English have nautical origins. This web page lists expressions and definitions mentioned by listswains, members of the Patrick O'Brian Mailing List, also known as the Gunroom.
www.io.com |
| 11. | New Words In English | | | 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.
www.owlnet.rice.edu |
| 12. | Oxford English Dictionary | | | Presents a word a day complete with pronunciation, spellings, etymology, quotations and date chart.
oed.com |
| 13. | A Word with You | | | A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.
www.wordwithyou.com |
| 14. | Etymology | | | Word origins and links.
members.tripod.com |
| 16. | Taiwan Teacher | | | A new word or phrase posted every week giving you the meaning, origin and an example of the usage of the word or phrase.
www.geocities.com |
| 17. | Roots of English | | | An etymological dictionary you can download by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University.
ablemedia.com |
| 18. | Pandora's Word Box | | | Relates medical terminology to the humanities, offering a weekly overview with references to classical etymology.
pandorawordbox.com |
| 19. | American Dialect Society | | | A scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
www.americandialect.org |
| 20. | Etymologic | | | The brain-twisting etymology game.
www.etymologic.com |
| 21. | The Phrase Finder | | | The meanings and origins of thousands of English phrases and sayings. Also contains a discussion forum to ask a panel questions on the meaning and origin of phrases.
phrases.shu.ac.uk |
| 22. | Word and Phrase Origins | | | Directory. Part of the Internet Public Library. Describes books and web sites that might be helpful. Offers a hint on how to use an ordinary search engine when looking for etymology.
www.ipl.org |
| 24. | Exploring English Words | | | Exploring English words that are derived from Latin and Greek sources with etymologies and vocabulary activities.
www.wordexplorations.info |
| 25. | Word Spy | | | Collection of recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are now being used in new ways.
www.wordspy.com |
| 27. | Altaic Etymology | | | Online database version of the Altaic Etymological Dictionary by S. Starostin, A. Dybo and O. Mudrak.
starling.rinet.ru |
| 29. | Word Sources | | | Includes a searchable database of Latin and Greek roots and affixes, a free newsletter, and links to other sites.
www.wordsources.info |
| 31. | Idiomatic Expressions | | | Dedicated to gathering sayings and idioms and their translation/explanation from all over Europe. User contributions welcome.
sayings.jacomac.de |
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