More Reference Works: Off the Beaten Track
Antagonyms:Single words that has meanings which contradict one another. |
Banished Words List:Lake Superior State University's annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use or General Uselessness". |
Pseudodictionary:A 'dictionary of words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries' - now over 11,000 neologisms strong. |
Strange and Unusual Dictionaries:Dictionaries of one-letter, all-consonant and all-vowel words.; an amusing site, full of informative word-facts. |
Apostrophe Protection Society:A site, only partly facetious, dedicated to the prevention of apostrophic catastrophe and misuse in the written English language. |
Anagram Genius Server:A free service that lets you put in any word or phrase and have its anagrams sent to you by e-mail. |
English as She is Spoke:A 19th century English all-consonant and all-vowel words; an amusing site, full of informative word-facts. |
The Dialectizer:Convert any web page into any number of English 'dialects': Redneck, Cockney, Elmer Fudd (!), etc. |
Word SpyDevoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. |
Phobia List:Fear not. You'll find it here. |
Heteronyms:A compilation of heteronyms, like lead (LEED) and lead (LED). |
Cliché Finder:3,300 clichés indexed. |
An Incomplete List of Eponyms:General term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name. |
The Eggcorn Database:An Eggcorn is an incorrect yet particularly suggestive creation of a word. |
Eponyms:An alphabetical listing of eponyms and their origins. |
Fonetiks:Online language laboratory. |
Phrontistery:Word lists and language resources to spread the joy of the English language in all its variety through time and space. |
Grandiloquent Dictionary:A list of 1900 obscure words with definitions. |
Luciferous Logolepsy:A compilation of over 9000 obscure words with definitions. |
Fun Words:Martha Barnette's site of weird words, including her own published books on the subject. |
Phrase Finder:Does for phrases what a thesaurus does for words |
Poetic Terms Glossary:Useful glossary of terms. Not pretty, but pretty complete. |
Reverse Dictionary:Describe a concept and receive a list of words and phrases related to it. |
Rhymezone Rhyming Dictionary:What does rhyme with orange? Check it out here. |
Word Fugitives:Searching for the right word? Try this interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. |
