The Mavens' Word of the Day (Popularity:  )
Daily explanation about new words, word origins, and slang expressions from Jesse Sheidlower, a senior editor in Random House's Reference ...
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Take Our Word for It (Popularity: )
Weekly etymology magazine.
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The Word Detective (Popularity: )
Words and language in a humorous vein. The online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions ...
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MooT (Popularity: )
The game of grammar, semantics, and etymology. Play online the game that investigates the history and meaning of English words.
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Fun With Word Origins (Popularity: )
Samples of the etymological books from word-lover Martha Barnette, author of "Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies" and "A Garden of Words."
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Focusing on Words (Popularity: )
An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.
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Richard Lederer's Verbivore (Popularity: )
Linguistic fun from, Richard Lederer, the best-selling author of The Word Circus and the new Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay, a ...
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What's The Meaning of This? (Popularity: )
The origins of quirky English words and phrases like "In like Flynn" and "blackmail."
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Origin of Phrases (Popularity: )
Categorized etymologies of phrases.
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Etymologically Speaking (Popularity: )
A list of some curious word origins.
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Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular (Popularity: )
Myriad expressions in everyday English have nautical origins. This web page lists expressions and definitions mentioned by listswains, members of ...
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New Words In English (Popularity: )
Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, ...
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Oxford English Dictionary (Popularity: )
Presents a word a day complete with pronunciation, spellings, etymology, quotations and date chart.
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A Word with You (Popularity: )
A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.
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Etymology (Popularity: )
Word origins and links.
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New York State Facts (Popularity: )
The origins of New York State's county names.
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Taiwan Teacher (Popularity: )
A new word or phrase posted every week giving you the meaning, origin and an example of the usage of ...
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Roots of English (Popularity: )
An etymological dictionary you can download by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University.
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Word Origins (Popularity: )
This regularly updated page, provided by The Writer's Place, focuses on a word and its spelling, pronunciation, and derivation.
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Pandora's Word Box (Popularity: )
Relates medical terminology to the humanities, offering a weekly overview with references to classical etymology.
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