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The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

A project of the Oxford English Dictionary to preserve words in the English language.

Word-Origins.com. Easy-to-use free collection of the history and origin of over 7,000 words. Concise, clear, and comprehensive explanations of the etymology of common English words.

IdiomDictionary.com. Easy-to-use free idiom dictionary with over 5,000 idioms and phrases explained. A concise, clear, and comprehensive explanation of all commonly used idioms.

The Center for Plain Language is a 501(c)(3) corporation established to propel the belief that
government and business communication can be clear and understandable. The Center's mission is to increase the usefulness and
efficiency of government, legal, and business documents, so that the people who use those documents can quickly
and easily: Find what they need, Understand what they find, Act on that understanding.

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yourDictionary - comprehensive authoritative dictionary, thesaurus, glossary and foreign language portal. Every resource needed for language study in more than 300 languages.

Not sure how I feel about this. Seems rather manipulative at the out set. While I want to learn how to be persuasive, this sounds almost creepy. How to change what others think, believe, feel and do is at the core of many professions. Here are the inne...

This is hilarious. One man's mission to stamp out, or at least expose, embarrassing typos across America.

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The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.

Free Online French, Italian and Spanish Dictionaries.

Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about the English language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett take calls from listeners about linguistic disputes, grammatical pet peeves, the origins of words and phrases, and curious r...

Figures of speech and rhetorical terms

Here’s your chance to tell the world about your favorite word.

Double-Tongued Dictionary: A growing lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon, new words, and more.

Aphorisms, quotes and sayings of famous people listed by category. We have thousands of quotations online from hundreds of authors.

Scientific documentation of endangered languages and helping communities maintain and revitalize their linguistic heritage.

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Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. Define your world

Founded in 1889, the American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it. Sponsor of the Word of the Year contest. There...

This server is a research tool for cognitive scientists and others interested in the study of conceptual metaphor systems. Ongoing work in the metaphor system of English and other languages is made available here using a hypertext format which allows t...

This site is dedicated to breaking down of language barriers and assisting the users who have the desire to learn a language, a need to communicate between languages, and for those who work with languages as a profession.

AltaVista Babel Fish provides the online text and web page language translation!

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World Wide Words. More than 1600 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. New words and words in the news are regularly featured.

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