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Interesting Language Links Sites offering language cleverness, words, phrases, dialects, accents, jargon, slang, and more. |
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| * Language Fun Pages at English-Zone.Com Here you can find language puns, satirical essays on English, inconsistencies on the language, jokes and other fun language nonsense. |
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| 1st international Collection of Tongue Twisters The world's largest collection of tongue twisters. |
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| A Word With You A daily column on word or phrase origins with a fun interactive hangman-like game called Dunceinstein. |
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| AmeriSpeak Collection Expressions of our American ancestors - a fun phrase resource - slang, colloquialisms, more. |
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| Avocabo This vocabulary site for middle & high school students features a wordlist of either: Dichotomous Words, Words from Specific Books & Authors, and Words from Specific Disciplines & Careers. |
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| Book-A-Minute Book-A-Minute understands that your time is valuable. You want the wonder and excitement of literature, but reading actual books requires too much time. Our ultra-condensed books are just the ticket! |
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| Coolsig Signature Files This site is for developing signature files for your email, but it has hundreds of proverbs, witty saying and idioms online. If you look at things a little differently, you'll find a resource! |
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| English Homophone Dictionary The members of each homophonic set are listed in alphabetical order. Good resource for vocabulary lessons. |
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| Etymologic - The Toughest Word Game on the Web A word game where you're presented with 10 randomly selected word origin or word definition puzzles to solve. |
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| Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams This is part of Interesting Things for ESL Students site. |
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| Fun-With-Words.com Fun-with-words.com is a website dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language. Our aim is providing a site about wordplay that's both entertaining and educational. |
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| Homonym List by Alan Cooper Words, like 'caret' and 'carrot' that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings. |
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| Inside Art You will get trapped INSIDE of a famous painting. You will learn a little bit about art, colors, painting and artists' lives. Then take an art quiz to get back out of the painting. |
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| Jennifer's Language Pages Learn how to say several words and phrases in 100s of different languages. |
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| Learn Spanish in Mexico at IMAC Spanish in Mexico! You will find a description of daily activities we offer to make learning Spanish a unique experience. Also find our pricing list and 'Spanish for specific skills' program. You |
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| Mystery Net's Kid Mysteries Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks, and contests. New mystery every week -- All FREE! |
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| MysteryNet.Com Here you can solve short mysteries - are you a good detective? |
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| Oxymorons A collection of words and phrases like 'jumbo shrimp' and 'small crowd' which in their pairing create irony. |
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| Page 'O Palindromes Palindrome: a word or phrase spelled the same backwards and forwards. (A man, a plan, a canal: Panama) |
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| Richard Lederer's Verbivore The web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. |
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| Rosie's Ringers Rosie presents lots of Rebus (picture word) puzzles. She even includes a section to practice on if this type of puzzle it is new to you. Great graphics, too! |
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| Sniglets A collection of sniglets -- words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should -- arranged conveniently by category. |
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| Sounds of the World's Animals Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals. |
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| Ten Codes Everybody knows 10-4 means OK, but here's a site that will teach you the other 33 codes. Hope you don't 10-22 this site. |
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| The Acronym Finder A database of more than 51,000 acronyms and their meanings. Contains acronyms about general topics, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and the military. |
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| The Book of Clichés phrases to say in times of trouble... |
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| The Case of Grandpa's Painting You will play the part of Art Pintura, Art Detective. You must read the clues and solve the case of Grandpa's Painting. This is really fun! |
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| The Phobia List It's enough to give you hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words). Now featuring a reverse phobia list where you can look things up the thing feared. |
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| The Phrase Finder A large collection of English phrases, sayings, quotes and cliches. |
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| The Testudine and the Leporine A collection of those 'ine' words that turn animals into adjectives. You know, like dog=canine, cat=feline, and tortoise=testudine. |
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| The Tongue Twister Database This page was created to give a good group of tongue twisters to people in speech therapy, and to people who want to work on getting rid of an accent, or to people who just plain like tongue twisters. |
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| The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English There's more to 'Boston English' than pahking cahs in Hahvuhd Yahd. They have their own way of pronouncing other words, their own vocabulary, even a unique grammatical construct. |
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| The Word Detective This web page features highlights from 'Words, Wit and Wisdom,' a humorous syndicated newspaper column which has been answering readers' questions about words and language since 1953. |
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| Twists, Slugs and Roscoes Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang - With the help of this glossary you too can talk like Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Mike Hammer. |
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| Wacky World of Words If you love word games, you'll love this page. Try your hand at such games as 'Compound Clues,' 'Numbletters,' 'Alpha-Spells,' and 'Rhyming Buddies.' Great fun! |
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| Web Frequency Indexer Create a frequency index, or 'word list', of any text. Just paste or type in your text and select the sort order you'd like. |
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| Wordly Wise WordGames An unusual and challenging collection of great word games. |
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| Wordplays Play against the clock to test your word knowledge with the interactive Boggle and Crossword Challenge. |
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| Wordwizard: for lovers of the English language This site takes you on a round trip across the language, offering a selection of new words, snappy quotes and elegant insults, not to mention amazing competitions, and the Lexicographer's Club. |
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