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Urban Dictionary - http://www.urbandictionary.com/
A veritable cornucopia of streetwise lingo, posted and defined by its readers. |
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The Visual Thesaurus - http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html
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. |
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Guardian Unlimited - Style Guide - http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide
The British newspaper's guide to word usage, grammar and punctuation, edited by David Marsh and Nikki Marshall. Includes 1928 edition in pdf format. |
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Rhetorical Figures - http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html
From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here. |
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World Wide Words - http://www.worldwidewords.org/
Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS. |
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Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota - http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu/
The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here. |
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A.Word.ADay - http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
The music and magic of words. This is the website for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day. |
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NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer - http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/
A free tool to create, edit, and save your MLA-style bibliography online, then publish it to a Web page, email it, or save it as RTF and open it in Microsoft Word. |
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Common Errors in English - http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections. |
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The Word Detective - http://www.word-detective.com
The online version of the newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. An extensive column and word archive. Written by Evan Morris. |
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Web Typography - http://webtypography.net/
The elements of typographic style applied to the web. |
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Word Fugitives - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/index.htm
An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them. |
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WordWizard - http://www.wordwizard.com/
Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language. |
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Verbivore - http://www.verbivore.com/
Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles. |
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Phrases Thesaurus - http://www.phrasefinder.co.uk
A generator of headlines and copy for journalists. Enter a word and the database is searched to provide a list of phrases related to that word. |
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Word Lab - http://www.wordlab.com/
A message board where you can request and brainstorm words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang. |
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Cliche Site - http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp
Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function. |
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Yale Style Manual - http://www.webstyleguide.com/
For the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content. |
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Jargon Finder - http://www.comnetwork.org/resources/jargon.html
The use and abuse of jargon. From The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. |
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WritingDEN - http://204.244.141.13/writ_den/
Interactive site created to help students improve English reading, writing and listening skills. |
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The Philosophy of Punctuation - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/721833.html
Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes. |
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Guides for Better Science Writing - http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/14-05.html
Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics. |
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Garbl's Editorial Style Manual - http://garbl.home.comcast.net/stylemanual/
Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage. |
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Wordiness - http://web.uvic.ca/~gkblank/wordiness.html
A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing. |
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SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors - http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/wrerrors/wrerrors.html
We compiled a list of the most common writing errors people tend to make. This is not a primer on grammar or essay-writing. This is a checklist of things which you might well do and which you must stop doing. |
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Slang City - http://www.slangcity.com
Writing about American slang. |
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Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature - http://www.spellorg.com/
Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers. |
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Pseudo Dictionary - http://www.pseudodictionary.com/index.php
The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries. |
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The Sports Cliche List - http://www.sportscliche.com
A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon. |
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Exploring English - http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/
An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language. |
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - http://www.powa.org/
Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays. |
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Wordelizer - http://www.emse.fr/~yukna/kahula/wordelizer/wordelizer.html
Delve deeply into a word or subject. Quick search of several word and language related sites. |
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Word News - http://www.wordnews.info
Efforts have been made to provide some of the best thoughts, ancient and modern, that are particularly appealing for our time and to promote a greater appreciation for the English language. |
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The Word Nerds - http://thewordnerds.libsyn.com/
A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do. |
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Correct Punctuation - http://www.correctpunctuation.co.uk
A brief guide to correct English punctuation. |
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English Guides - http://sites.google.com/site/englishgrammarguide/
A guide to English grammar. Also links to punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, and writing guides. |
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Pataphysics, Pataphors and Pataphorology - http://paulavion.com/pata.html
An extended metaphor that creates its own context. A science invented by P.A. Lopez and derived from the science of 'pataphysics as described by Alfred Jarry. |
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Linguistic Phenomena/Devices - http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak/ling-devices.html
A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms. |
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The Well Bred Sentence - http://www.englishgrammartutor.com/grammar%20book.htm
Online book offering an intensive course in sentence construction and punctuation. |
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SDSU Writing Resource Crib - http://literature.sdsu.edu/lanzbom/
Offering tips and lively description on grammar, English, and writing. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word3.html - http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word3.html
List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use. |
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Good Grammar, Good Style - http://www.protrainco.com/info/grammar.htm
Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography. |
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E-dition: Dictionary of Concise Writing - http://www.e-dition.net/dictionary.html
A look at word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases. |
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Illiterate Businesses - http://www.illiteratebusinesses.ca
An unabashed rant weblog featuring English-language business signs with grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. Includes a free sign editing offer. |
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Frequently Asked Questions about English - http://www.alexcommunications.com/faq.htm
Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation. |
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Word Rogues - http://www.lanzbom.org
Tips on writing, English, and grammar. This site also includes active community college English syllabii and links to other writing, grammar sites. |
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Tribe: Linguistics - http://linguistica.tribe.net/
Group for discussions of words and language. |
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Tribe: Words of Power - http://powerwords.tribe.net/
For people who love words, use them, feel them in their mouths as flavorful bursts of energy. This is the tribe for fun with words and receptive learning. |
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Lingo Factory - http://lingofactory.tribe.net/
A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are real words. |
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Ralph's Manual of Style - http://www.rms.hung-sun.com/
A guide to style, grammar, usage, and more by a guy named Ralph. |
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Ewriting - http://www.e-writing.info
Easy to learn electronic writing style that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions. |
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Writer's Dreamtools - http://www.writersdreamtools.com/
A series of useful tools to enhance writers' and students' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer's block. |
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SecretariesUSA.com - http://secretariesusa.com/
Reference for the home and corporate office, including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles, and business forms. |
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Findaphrase.com - http://www.findaphrase.com/
Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases. |
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The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook - http://www.wonderfulwritingskillsunhandbook.com/
An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills. |